Explaining his decision to plead guilty, Cruz told the judge he was acting independent of higher authorities.
Many of its building licences have now been challenged by higher authorities.
Illegal and ad hoc "black jails" were set up to prevent them from trying to reach higher authorities to denounce local official misconduct.
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"We have to take these comments very seriously, and report it to the higher authorities in regards to potential economic impact, " Mr Turner said.
The official said that more senior level officials could be brought in if there are disagreements but that to date the two sides have been able to agree without bringing in those higher authorities.
The final total is likely to be even higher as some authorities have not given target numbers.
Li Peng began to turn the tables in 2003, when village leaders teamed up with higher-level authorities to take 37 hectares (91 acres) of local farmland and convert it to forest.
Unfortunately for the Kremlin, Soviet farmers have, in part, balked at supplying their produce to Moscow center since local authorities and more free-market oriented entrepreneurs are willing to pay producers higher prices than those set by central authorities -- which have remained largely unchanged for over 15 years.
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There were also some local authorities with much higher proportions of pupils not getting any of their school choices.
And from Singapore to Seoul, the authorities are demanding higher down-payments from borrowers and restricting lending to developers (see article).
Rates arrears in Northern Ireland are higher relatively than those owed to local authorities in England.
Nine local education authorities (LEA) had higher rates, with the worst at 2.7%.
Chinese authorities have not indicated if higher-level officials would be held accountable.
The rankings will be one of the elements that will lead public authorities toward structural reforms in higher education and research and to make this effort despite financial constraints on public finances.
The newspaper also calls on the authorities to address public concerns over higher ticket prices.
These extraordinary technological achievements enable operators to maximize returns from each well, which in turn means higher royalty payments to mineral owners, and higher tax revenues for local and state taxing authorities.
Early reports from the Iranian authorities suggested the casualties could be much higher this time.
Already, the probe by Shanghai authorities into whether Yum bought raw chicken with higher-than-permitted chemical levels badly damaged fourth-quarter results.
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There have been 60, 326 extensions in hours for selling alcohol - this is from 301 of the 375 authorities, so the final figure will be higher.
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Authorities there on Sunday started moving communities at risk to higher ground.
He points to a similar group in Ireland that has a higher budget per capita, and will be active in all local authorities, rather than in just the 15 a year in the UK that the Defra group is targeting.
The stakes could hardly be higher for them in May, with retaining their leadership of those authorities as important - and for much of the party, even more important perhaps - than retaining a decent number of AMs was in last year's poll.
Authorities have said the death toll likely would have been much higher if it weren't for the actions of so many first responders.
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With commercial banks gradually pulling their interbank and short-term credit lines from Soviet institutions and completely cutting off medium-term lending, the Kremlin's authorities are tempted, if not compelled, to take on higher pay-off banking transactions internationally.
She said that while the government wanted higher-quality childcare it was also proposing to remove the statutory duty on local authorities to ensure that those providing it got the training and support to improve.
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Lord McKenzie also said Labour did not share the government's view that business rate retention would provide incentives for local authorities to promote growth, arguing that councils might approve development which yields higher business rates over that which provides higher employment.
The authorities have the option to use this additional revenue to alleviate harsh social conditions through higher welfare payments, pensions and salaries, or greater subsidies.
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The US is one of the last places to not allow transmitting electronics in-flight. (And only recently the FAA is coming under pressure by the airlines themselves so they can turn a higher profit with these additional systems) But it has been happening for awhile now with the other authorities, ie- EASA, CAAS, so on.
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Worse, to use the tax code to stimulate one sector of the commercial world, authorities must depress other sectors--in this case by saddling individuals and large firms with higher tax bills in order to favor the small.
Highly anticipated by national education authorities, the workshop was closely followed by his excellence Youba Mamadou Diallo, Minister of Secondary and Higher Education and Scientific Research.
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