The main difference is that sheriffs and their deputies have much more discretion over how to deal with such offenders than state-prison wardens do.Sheriffs can, for example, send troublemakers to mental-health treatment instead of jail.
"Governments are often speaking to their domestic political audiences or their parliamentary majority or backbench deputies as much as to the markets," said Thomas Klau, head of the Paris office of the European Council on Foreign Relations and author of a book on the euro.
The hope is that this will bring independence by a different route.The new strategy was in fact introduced by Alex Salmond, who served as leader for ten years, with Mr Swinney as his deputy for much of that time.
The head of mission, the head's spouse, and the deputy spend much time entertaining visiting politicians and attending receptions at which some business is conducted and information is collected but representation also entails lodging official or informal protests with the host government or explaining and defending national policy.
About a month later, Tawnyspots falls ill with an incurable illness, so he is unable to be deputy for much longer.
Abramson was removed from her post and replaced by her deputy Dean Baquet, much to the shock of Times staffers and the greater media world.
Unlike Mubarak, his deputies were acquitted – much to the anger of most Egyptians.
Environmental groups scoff at the notion that a few deputies would make much difference in a region so vast.
But deputies do so much more than just provide cover in the absence of a leader, says Ged Fitzgerald, chief executive of Liverpool city council, who reinstated the role of deputy in his last position at the head of Lancashire county council, combining it with a director of resources role.
It was impossible to know, watching him and the deputy mayor, how much had really been forgiven and how much forgotten.
Thousands of choice paintings were shipped to grace the estate of Hermann Göring, Hitler's deputy, who oversaw much of the stealing.
