Technology and the economy have changed many of the basic "resume rules" we have trusted in the past.
Lastly, Pakistan has done little to resume democratic rule at the national level, the report said.
He talked tough this week, promising to cancel the elections and resume direct rule in earnest if either party looked less than committed.
The corrupt and chaotic state of some offshore tax havens was illustrated this month by Whitehall's decision to dismiss the local authorities and resume direct rule in the Turks and Caicos Islands.
In 1186 Igor escaped from captivity and returned to Novgorod-Seversky, where he resumed his rule but drifted into relative insignificance.
And the earliest attempt at resuming home rule would be postponed until after the national election that Mr. Blair is expected to call in May.
Mitchell, shadow foreign affairs leader for the Bahamian opposition party, recently led a delegation to TCI that wanted to explore ways to rally CARICOM against London resuming direct rule.
Britain resumed direct rule of Northern Ireland on Monday after the local government, in which Protestants and Roman Catholics share power, was suspended for the fourth time in response to accusations that the I.R.A. was spying on British officials.
David II resumed his rule and set about rebuilding Edinburgh Castle which became his principal seat of government.
The protests are the worst in Hong Kong since China resumed its rule of the former British colony in 1997.
