Sentence examples for restore to local from inspiring English sources

A more plausible option would be to retain the council tax and to restore to local authorities the control over business rates that they lost in 1990.

The Chancellor used it in his speech to the Conservative Party conference this year when he announced he would restore to local councils the power to set their own business rates.

Even a small shortfall in central grants sends council-tax rates soaring.The simplest solution would be to restore to local councils the right to tax business premises, which has been centralised since 1990.

We will end all selection by aptitude and restore to local authorities the decision on whether schools in their areas can select by ability – scrapping this government's complex balloting arrangements.

The land now occupied by I-287 -- "millions and millions of dollars in expensive real estate" -- could be restored to local communities for parks or development, he said.

They would also like to see the decision-making power on the provision of schools, including free schools, restored to local authorities, along with the power to open council-controlled community schools.

Two months ago, the rebels managed to gain control over nearly 100 major jade mines in Hpakant and restored to locals their indigenous right to dig for jade themselves.

At the fair, Mr. Reagan told a cheering and mostly white audience, "I believe in states' rights" and that as president he would do all he could to "restore to states and local governments the power that properly belongs to them".

Bill McKibben works our damaged planet Earth through a dimension of time reversal and what might be called the physics of Christian beatitude: The future shall be made past, and the big shall be made small; the global shall be restored to the local; the harm may be undone, the seas may recede, the temperatures may drop, the hurricanes may abate and humanity may be returned to its happier mind.

We want to restore pride to local communities".

The program, known as SPAT, encourages East Enders to restore shellfish to local waters by nurturing them in sites that predators cannot reach; ultimately, the matured shellfish are seeded in streams and bays.