Further strides have been made in decentralizing Government authority and services.

He has wide ranging powers, including the authority to make senior government appointments.

We wish to see the full consolidation of authority by the central Government.

11 In accordance with article 19, the Supplementary Agreement shall enter into force on its approval by the Assembly of the Authority and the Government of Jamaica, and this Agreement shall be applied provisionally by the Authority and the Government of Jamaica upon signature by the Secretary General of the Authority and on behalf of the Government of Jamaica.

The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) had provided assistance to the Transitional Federal Government.

The Government of Sierra Leone has continued to consolidate its authority throughout the country.

Afghanistan is a sovereign state, and its government has the authority do what it wants.

In sum, the national government will lack both the authority and the means to govern Iraq.

Yet the Palestinian Authority demanded their release, Israel s government obliged, and the US supported the transaction.

At the end of 2004, Guam Telephone Authority, the last Government run phone company, was privatized.

The President ruled by decree and none of the other government bodies had any real authority.

As required by MERCOSUR, the Government of Paraguay established the National Authority for Navigation and Ports.

The visit took place with the cooperation of the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

Each region has its own administrative structure a military authority, a health authority, school inspectorates, labour inspectorates, local government offices and, in the near future, human rights departments.

Stability in the area depends largely on the Government of Lebanon exercising its authority over all of its territory, however that level of authority and control remains limited.

Now, China s government must take fiscal decentralization further, giving each local government the authority to collect taxes and control its budget s scale and structure.

Only a government that is sufficiently powerful, in terms of legal authority and solvency, can do so.

I have heard that a local government authority in Shandong has been illegally oppressing citizen Chen Guangcheng.

Their main demand is for SCAF to leave power and hand over authority to a civil government.

The assumption of governing authority by the Iraqi interim Government had marked the beginning of a new era.

(i) Intelligence government agencies intruded on the site seemingly without judicial authority and subsequently failed to coordinate findings.

We therefore salute both the Israeli Government and the Palestinian National Authority for their efforts in that regard.

The Government is moving on the devolution of authority to the local level to realign centralized structures of the past with European standards of local self government.

The Dodd Authority allows the US government only to determine the terms of an official takeover within the US.

The central Government does not exercise any authority in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The European Union welcomes the Agreement on Movement and Access between the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

The European Union welcomes the Agreement on Movement and Access between the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority.

But, by continuing to build settlements on Palestinian land, the Israeli government has undermined the authority of Abbas and his Fatah government almost to the point of impotence.

The mission warmly congratulated the people and Government of Burundi for the successful conduct of the electoral process and the peaceful transfer of authority to an elected Government.

David Cameron s new government in the United Kingdom apparently came to the same conclusion when it announced plans to transfer regulatory authority from the Financial Services Authority (FSA) to the Bank of England.

The term has also been used to define a dominant federal government that seeks to control the authority of local institutions an example being the overriding of state authority in favor of federal legislation.

At the same time, the Turkish government is pursuing a separate path of negotiations, through a rapprochement with another Kurdish authority the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq.

Consequently Brussels is no government to be, but a regulatory authority and this often to the benefit of European consumers.

The Supreme Leader has absolute authority and can veto decisions made by the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government.

The Office of the Attorney General provides legal services to the Government of Guam and is empowered with prosecutorial authority.

The Guam Power Authority, an autonomous agency of the Government of Guam, is responsible for providing electricity throughout the island.

Further progress was made in restoring and consolidating State authority in the counties, particularly in the rehabilitation of government infrastructure.

The Authority for Government Corporations, in cooperation with the Authority for the Advancement of the Status of Women, have requested all governmental corporations to address the issue of women's appropriate representation in their annual reports.

Ayatollah Yousef Sanei, a former attorney general and a religious authority (marja ), has asked the government to refrain from provoking Israel.

In Libya, the collapse of Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi s regime has thrown the country into chaos and decimated central government authority.

Previously autonomous regulatory bodies (such as the competition authority) have been quietly subordinated to the government, with no debate or discussion.

Juan Carlos Hidalgo applauds the decision by the Costa Rican government to extend and establish diplomatic relations with the Palestine Authority.

The Government of Sierra Leone has made commendable efforts towards the consolidation of constitutional order and State authority throughout the country.

We were also encouraged by the recent agreement on the Rafah border crossing between the Israeli Government and the Palestinian Authority.

That this decision was taken in conjunction with the transfer of authority to a new Iraqi Government only adds to its significance.