Sentence examples for under a municipality from inspiring English sources

Below that level are districts under a municipality (shixiaqu), counties (xian), and county-level municipalities (xianjishi).

But people briefed on the inquiry say prosecutors face a significant hurdle, in the concept of sovereign immunity, under which a municipality is immune from prosecution absent a waiver.

Illinois's permissive incorporation law empowered any community of 300 resident citizens to petition the Illinois legislature for incorporation as a municipality under a municipal charter with more extensive powers to provide services and tax local residents.

Although not a U.S. state, Puerto Rico was treated like a state (and not a municipality) under the U.S. federal bankruptcy code and therefore could not declare bankruptcy.

Under Mr. Maisano's proposal, a municipality would need one vote more than a simple majority to approve a project that county planners oppose -- or to reject a change the planners recommend.

First the township, trying to do the cleanup itself, sued Drew Chemical and won a precedent-setting ruling in 1985 that a municipality, under the Superfund legislation, could seek to recoup cleanup costs from a private company proven to be the source of contamination.

After India's independence from the British in 1947, Sivakasi continued to be a municipality under the Madras state and later a part of Tamil Nadu, when the state was split on linguistic lines during 1953, 1956 and 1960 and renamed in 1968.

The Chinese capital of Beijing is a municipality under the direct control of the Central Government.

The two parts were not united under a single municipality until 1715.

Chongqing is a municipality directly under China's central government.

Chongqing is a municipality directly under China's central government, with a total population of 28.8 million people (2010 census).