Sentence examples for self-governing local from inspiring English sources

There is no hierarchical relation between counties/regions and municipalities since they each have their own self-governing local authority with responsibilities for different activities.

Soon after his accession Nicholas proclaimed his uncompromising views in an address to liberal deputies from the zemstvos, the self-governing local assemblies, in which he dismissed as "senseless dreams" their aspirations to share in the work of government.

"We have brought gaokors closer to the village and are planning to put beds in them," says Haridas Namdev Kumra, 25, a member of the village's Gram Panchayat, a local self-governing body.

Critics ranging from Glenn Beck to Paul Ryan have said Wilson led the nation away from its original basis — a self-governing citizenry guided by common sense and represented by legislators attuned to local concerns — and replaced it with a regime of policy experts "devoted to high principle," as the political theorist Willmoore Kendall put it in 1960.

The Northern Territory (Self-Government) Act of 1978 established the Northern Territory as a self-governing entity.

While the newly elected councils will not wield much power, they will have responsibility for education, transport, health care and other local services as part of the United Nations plan to develop Kosovo into a self-governing territory.

This study examines preliminary information on local social institutional arrangements for water allocation in the context of Ostrom's rules for self-governing institutions.

Study provides the starkness to the notion that local actors in tropical community-based marine resource systems overcome the CPR dilemmas through robust self-governing institutions.

Unlike machines, whose governing functions are embedded by human designers, organisms are self-governing.

That is not how a proper self-governing people behave.

In the 12th century it became a self-governing commune.