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
316 million (2008); note - the US Internet total host count includes the following top level domain host addresses: .us, .com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .net, and .org
www.exxun.com/UnitedStates/f_cm.html
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
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... 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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... which relies heavily on international wholesale markets for funding. The economy remains relatively healthy despite falling export commodity prices. The government plans to counter slowing growth in 2009 with fiscal stimulus efforts
www.exxun.com/Australia/e_ec.html
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
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... 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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