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33 examples of Localities in a sentence

It had sucked all that power up from the localities.
And we must find a mechanism where people will pool in the portfolio, will invest in the portfolio, where different innovations will go to a small number of people in their localities, and yet, the overall platform of the model will become viable.
These changes have been pursued in many localities since 1992.
To that end, an infrastructure program should give states and localities a key role in selecting the projects to be funded, and these governmental units should have “skin in the game” by funding part of the costs.
Wen Jiabao, China’s Premier, acknowledged last year that protests in the countryside were caused by “some localities [that] are unlawfully occupying farmers’ land” and promised “effective legal services and legal aid so as to provide effective help to people who have difficulty filing lawsuits.”
They rely heavily on the private sector, require tough quantitative evaluation, and devolve most of the actual work to states and localities.
This should make them willing to offer such policies to millions of people in different localities.
They all exhibit the same, unchanging pattern: the government, whether in Beijing or the localities, tolerates the low-decibel, smaller-scale, relatively non-disruptive marches and sit-ins by demonstrators bearing petitions and posters, especially if they appear to be spontaneous, un-organized, localized and leaderless.
For 2004, the central government allocated some 78 billion yuan for laid-off workers and the poor, with localities also upping their outlays.
Moreover, many states and localities lack the capacity to evaluate the costs and benefits of PPPs – a problem that President Barack Obama proposed solving with a new federal PPP knowledge center.
Competition among localities – for example, between states for businesses and workers, and between school districts for students – can lead to more efficient and effective allocation of public resources.
Where localities try to offload support for the poor onto other localities, the central government must step in and either fund such programs directly or set minimum standards.
The franchises and rejigged ideology mean that some fragments of Al Qaeda will probably survive, because they are embedded more deeply within particular localities.
States and localities are cutting back expenditures.
Incentives were created for provinces and localities to invest and spur economic growth.
But the state itself is in dire financial straits; one of the cities’ problems is the sharp curtailment of state funds to localities.
At the same time, many localities need additional funding for affordable housing.
So far, Muslims in Russia have not been actively involved in political life, with the glaring exception of certain localities, such as Chechnya.
And local officials in many localities explicitly threaten violators with other harsh punishments, including destruction of their houses and confiscation of their farm animals.
After all, other countries and localities, from Scandinavia to New York City, have made smoking prohibitively expensive and illegal in most public places.
The LFPs would borrow from banks using future government revenue as collateral to finance packaged-investment projects in Chinese localities.
Why does mortality, supposedly, vary significantly across localities?
It is also clear that some states and localities have taken enforcement of precautionary measures (social distancing, mandatory face masks) more seriously than others.
Worse yet, the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, which host about 25 million workers, have “closed off” some localities where migrant workers were previously allowed.
Competitions among states and localities to attract large employers with tax and other subsidies work especially badly.
California lawmakers recently enacted legislation that officially authorizes “public ownership of public banks for the purpose of achieving cost savings, strengthening local economies, supporting community economic development, and addressing infrastructure and housing needs for localities.”
It can underwrite a massive boost in funding for such programs and encourage states and localities to engage in more experimentation along the lines of successful programs elsewhere.
In our study, we tracked how the evolution of local economic activity in Mozambican localities, reflected in satellite images of nighttime light density, responded to mine clearance operations between 1992 and 2015.
In still other localities, such as Réunion Island and the island of Mauritius, they build fringing reefs, high, straight walls next to which the ocean's depth is considerable.
In certain localities thin smoke holes gave off a sulfurous odor, showing that the inner fires still kept their wide-ranging power.