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Under the latest proposal, the Security Council would assume sovereignty, granting control over the Islamic sites to the Palestinians while the Israelis kept the Western Wall.

Yet Mr Ghai's team argues that granting control over the size and composition of the constituent assembly to none other than the prime minister, Mr Bainimarama, violates "essential principles of democracy".

In Italy Lorenzo Valla (1407 57) used philology and historical inquiry to expose a number of forgeries, including the Donation of Constantine, which purportedly granted control over the Western Roman Empire to the pope.

Queen Melisende of Jerusalem resided in Nablus from 1150 to 1161, after she was granted control over the city in order to resolve a dispute with her son Baldwin III.

As a result, in AD 18 Germanicus was granted control over the eastern part of the empire, just as both Agrippa and Tiberius had received before, and was clearly the successor to Tiberius.

Later that same year, TNA were granted control over the NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships by the National Wrestling Alliance (NWA) governing body, subsequently becoming an official NWA territory as NWA TNA.

Later that same year TNA was granted control over the NWA World Heavyweight and World Tag Team Championships by the National Wrestling Alliance NWAA) governing body; subsequently becoming an official NWA territory as NWA TNA.

And ExxonMobil faces the daunting prospect of dealing with Papua New Guinea's distinctive form of land tenure, which grants control over 97 percent of the land to customary landowners, primarily indigenous people whose ownership rights to small plots are inherited.

But the greatest indoor breakthrough was something we now take for granted: control over light, impossible in the open air until the invention of gas lighting in the late 18th century.

Under the terms of its limited self-rule, the Palestinian Authority was granted control over internal security functions in the areas it controls, but no role in external defense.

The approach granted control over each independent subunit, permitting mutation of the critical 3′-phosphoadenosine 5′-phosphosulfate (PAPS) binding residue Arg258 and/or the catalytic base His109 in a single subunit of the dimer.