• But a year later an independent inspector ruled the area should be a town green.

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  • In 2009, the city council granted the club permission for the project but a year later the inspector, Ross Crail, ruled the area should be a town green.

    BBC: Ashton Vale: Inspector to report on town green status

  • That's when colonial powers ruled the area.

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  • But the ancient Thracian tribes who once ruled here loved the area, settling sites more than 2, 000 years ago that were later built up by conquering Romans and Byzantines.

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  • In a 4-to-3 decision, the state Court of Appeals ruled against an Albany-area strip club, Nite Moves, which had challenged the state's sales-tax policy on constitutional grounds.

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  • Despite the sharp rise in violence in the greater Sao Paulo area, the government ruled out deploying the military to the most violent neighbourhoods.

    BBC: Police on patrol in Paraisopolis

  • But it is certainly true that, precisely because of those links, Iran remains influential in Afghanistan, notably in the area around its border, ruled by the self-appointed governor of Herat, Ismail Khan.

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  • This is the third time the race has taken place in the Complexo do Alemao, a vast area of interconnected slums once ruled by some of the most powerful drug gangs in Brazil.

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  • Last month the Constitutional Tribunal, Peru's highest court, ruled that exploration should halt in the protected area while the government comes up with a development plan.

    ECONOMIST: A scramble for land sets investors against locals

  • Jones has long bemoaned his central midfield "problem area" and his crisis deepened when Scottish international Rae was ruled out for up to four weeks after breaking two bones in his right hand in Monday's 4-4 draw at Peterborough.

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  • Furthermore, America and the West have no immediate plans to bestow recognition on Somaliland, the de facto fully autonomous area in the north-west of the country that was ruled by Britain during the colonial era before Somalia's independence in 1964.

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  • In a very controversial case, Downes ruled that the government was wrong to have experimentally introduced the wolves to an area where the animal was already found.

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  • An international court ruled in 1962 said that the Preah Vihear temple belonged to Cambodia, but the surrounding area is claimed by both sides.

    BBC: Thai-Cambodia border fighting enters fourth day

  • However, although the sea ice is shrinking -- covering less total area as well as becoming thinner -- the Arctic is still a world ruled by ice, a lesson well learned when the Polar Pioneer encountered heavy pack ice between Svalbard and the eastern coast of Greenland, forcing the captain to divert the boat and drop speed to just a few knots.

    BBC: Life in the fragile, frozen Arctic

  • In November of last year, the Court of Appeal ruled that the local education authority had acted unlawfully by automatically allocating school places to children living in a catchment area, because it did not give sufficient choice to parents from outside the area.

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