Elected officials in Florida represented the voting white majority.

Voters have a way of holding elected officials accountable for their pronouncements.

Soriya went to several local administrative officers and showed them the video.

Xinhua announced that local officials responsible for the violence might be prosecuted.

What those forecasting the eurozone s collapse overlooked was the commitment of elected officials and their constituents to the European project.

Starting this year, all local officials, governors, regents and mayors are directly elected by the people.

It was noted that the judiciary was not independent and that local officials had a tendency to interfere with legal matters.

Since 1995, the High Representative has been able to bypass the elected parliamentary assembly, and since 1997 has been able to remove elected officials.

Elected officials passivity has stoked popular mistrust, which now threatens the European project.

The children died because corrupt local officials had allowed developers to enrich themselves by using inferior building materials.

But the concentration of power in the Supreme Leader s hands poses risks for the Islamic Republic. When Khamenei dies, there is no strong and obvious successor.

Elected officials everywhere must adjust, to varying degrees, to fulfill the expectations of those who put them in office.

According to independent reports and local officials, however, least 35,000 people are thought to have fled the region.

In Hong Kong, Zhao s sentence has sparked popular protests outside of government offices and formal objections from local officials.

Awkward as it may look, Chen asked the Chinese government to investigate the illegal harm local officials had infringed on him.

Principals, be they investors or voters, determine the incentives of agents, be they asset managers or elected officials and policymakers.

The Internet, however, also empowers citizens with new tools and tactics to hold their elected officials accountable, increase transparency in government, and promote broader and more diverse civic engagement.

Local officials serving in this position are sometimes referred to as the chief executive officer (CEO) or chief administrative officer (CAO) in some municipalities.

If government investment has to be the main vehicle, then it would be far better to build desperately needed schools and hospitals than bridges to nowhere, as Japan famously did when it went down a similar path in the 1990 s.

During my visit to the Kalma camp on 28 May, I pressed local officials to ensure that this type of harassment and intimidation would be brought to an end.

Mirror representation is premised on the assumption that elected officials of a particular gender would likely support policies that seek to benefit constituents of the same gender.

With the focus on civil society, parliamentarians and other elected officials should not be ignored they can strengthen implementation of the measures advocated through political legitimacy and or administrative authority.

The Global Compact Office communicated directly with all participating chief executive officers concerning this requirement, while also engaging the many country networks to mobilize local participants in that regard.

Moreover, several local officials were reportedly engaged in the illegal sale of mining permits, in contravention of the directives issued by the Ministry of Lands, Mines and Energy.

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(i) Two from those elected from African States, two from those elected from Eastern European States and two from those elected from Western European and other States

In particular, owing to the relative insignificance of national party lists, Jordanians of Palestinian origin, who comprise nearly half the electorate, receive only a small percentage of elected officials.

A truly independent judiciary will take time to establish, but some judges can be appointed and paid by and report to the central government rather than local officials.

Use of the term in scholarly analyses tends to take place in the context of a democracy governed by elected officials, though the subordination of the military to political control is not unique to these societies.

A number of measures on physical security of office premises and assets have been implemented and are ongoing, along with the training of staff, including senior managers and local field safety personnel.

But Italian voters overwhelmingly rejected his approach, in part because austerity did not appear to extend to elected officials or to major parts of the large ecosystem of departments, enterprises, and unions that surround government.

It is high time for the supposed Fourth Estate the media to scrutinize the behavior and motives of judges and prosecutors, both individually and collectively, in the same way they do elected officials.

(b) Local officials and local partners were trained to promote the participation of local agencies, networking within or between the project sites, and to better understand rural urban migration issues

National and local officials in threatened nations must be prepared to respond to warnings within minutes and to communicate warnings to local populations via sirens, mass media, specialized radio systems and other notification technologies.

(e) To investigate and hold accountable those responsible for the mistreatment and detention of domestic and foreign journalists in connection with the election of 19 March 2006 and post election demonstrations

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American families are hurting, and elected officials want to pin the blame on China, thereby deflecting attention from the difficult task of rebuilding saving, restoring competitiveness, and living within the country s means.

China has undertaken a nationwide campaign to reduce energy consumption per unit of GDP by 20 by 2010, and will hold local officials accountable for achieving the targets.

The ratio of unelected to elected members will change from 1 2 to 1 4, instead of 1 1 under the draft resolution of the group of four.

Most of our local authorities, when they sit down to plan for the next five, 10, 15, 20 years of a community, still start by assuming that there will be more energy, more cars, more housing, more jobs, more growth, and so on.

The Japanese enlarged administration and appointed local leaders, which weakened the authority of local traditional leaders.

Since politicians follow public opinion rather than lead it, it must be the public itself that demands its own survival, not elected officials who are somehow supposed to save us despite ourselves.

In July, having failed to elicit any government response, Chen began seeking legal aid from prominent lawyers to prepare lawsuits on behalf of the victims, causing alarm among local officials.

And, since he has systematically weakened Iran s political institutions so that the Islamic Republic itself has come to be identified with his person, his absence will create a vacuum. His strength today foreshadows greater uncertainty in Iran s future.

Our regulators and elected officials were politically captured special interests in the financial markets gained a great deal from rampant deregulation and the failure to adapt the regulatory structure to the new products.