councils
... are 6 districts (Banaba, Central Gilberts, Line Islands, Northern Gilberts, Southern Gilberts, Tarawa) and 21 island councils - one for each of the inhabited islands (Abaiang, Abemama, Aranuka, Arorae, Banaba, Beru, Butaritari, Kanton ...
www.exxun.com/Kiribati/d_gv.html
councils
Jamahiriya (a state of the masses) in theory, governed by the populace through local councils; in practice, an authoritarian state
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Councils
none (administered directly from Valletta); note - Local Councils carry out administrative orders
www.exxun.com/Malta/d_gv.html
councils
... consists of a Chamber of Counselors (or upper house) (270 seats; members elected indirectly by local councils, professional organizations, and labor syndicates for nine-year terms; one-third of the members are ...
www.exxun.com/Morocco/d_gv.html
councils
... are elected by popular vote to serve five-year terms) elections: National Council - elections for regional councils to determine members of the National Council held 29-30 November 2004 (next to be held ...
www.exxun.com/Namibia/d_gv.html
councils
... First Chamber or Eerste Kamer (75 seats; members indirectly elected by the country's 12 provincial councils to serve four-year terms) and the Second Chamber or Tweede Kamer (150 seats; members ...
www.exxun.com/Netherlands/d_gv.html
councils
bicameral Parliament consists of Senate (26 seats; 12 members elected by local councils, 8 appointed by the president, 4 by the Political Organizations Forum, 2 represent institutions of higher learning; to serve ...
www.exxun.com/Rwanda/d_gv.html
councils
... government held elections nationwide from February through April 2005 for half the members of 179 municipal councils. In December 2005, King ABDALLAH completed the process by appointing the remaining members of the ...
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councils
... majority in the larger United People's Assembly (893 representatives from the national, local, and regional councils), for five-year terms (no term limits); election last held on 25 May 2005 (next ...
www.exxun.com/Suriname/d_gv.html
councils
... consists of an upper house or Senate (100 seats; 84 members are elected by regional governing councils and 16 appointed by the president; to serve five-year terms) and a lower house ...
www.exxun.com/Uzbekistan/d_gv.html
councils
... five-year term by an electoral college consisting of Parliament and the presidents of the regional councils; election for president last held 16 August 2004 (next to be held in 2009); following ...
www.exxun.com/Vanuatu/d_gv.html
Counselors
bicameral Parliament consists of a Chamber of Counselors (or upper house) (270 seats; members elected indirectly by local councils, professional organizations, and labor syndicates for nine-year terms; one-third of the ...
www.exxun.com/Morocco/d_gv.html
counselors
... serve five-year terms) and the Chamber of Advisors (126 seats; 85 members elected by municipal counselors, deputies, mayors, and professional associations and trade unions; 41 members are presidential appointees; members serve ...
www.exxun.com/Tunisia/d_gv.html
count
1278 (formed under the joint suzerainty of the French count of Foix and the Spanish bishop of Urgel)
www.exxun.com/Andorra/d_gv.html
count
282 million (2007); note - the US Internet total host count includes the following top level domain host addresses: .us, .com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .net, and .org
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counted
2001 census counted a resident population of 15,017
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counted
... and fishing are also major components of GDP. Subsistence farming predominates. Although pre-independence Equatorial Guinea counted on cocoa production for hard currency earnings, the neglect of the rural economy under successive ...
www.exxun.com/EquatorialGuinea/e_ec.html
counter
... in 1919. A brief experiment in democracy ended in a 1973 coup and a 1978 Communist counter-coup. The Soviet Union invaded in 1979 to support the tottering Afghan Communist regime, touching ...
www.exxun.com/Afghanistan/a_fg.html
counter
... politics ever since. Many Algerians in the subsequent generation were not satisfied, however, and moved to counter the FLN's centrality in Algerian politics. The surprising first round success of the Islamic ...
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counter
... of flying fish in Trinidad and Tobago's exclusive economic zone; joins other Caribbean states to counter Venezuela's claim that Aves Island sustains human habitation, a criterion under the UN Convention ...
www.exxun.com/Barbados/i_ti.html
counter
... destined for Western Europe; limited producer of precursor chemicals, particularly for amphetamine and methamphetamine; efforts to counter money laundering, related to organized crime and drug trafficking, are improving, but remain vulnerable; significant ...
www.exxun.com/Hungary/i_ti.html
counter
... the highest opiate addiction rates in the world, and has an increasing problem with synthetic drugs; lacks anti-money laundering laws; has reached out to neighboring countries to share counter-drug intelligence
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counter
increasing attention to conservationist practices to counter loss of soil fertility from traditional slash and burn agriculture
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