Mr Karzai has tried to coax powerful local commanders into supporting the central authority by offering them government jobs in Kabul.
Even as the electoral process steadily advances, worries persist about insecurity, attitudes to the law, and tendencies to flout the central authority.
In areas where there is resistance to the central authority, the army will operate as they always have: with total arrogance and impunity.
So the new government, when it finally takes shape, will face an early challenge to ensure that such militias submit to the central authority.
The group of Mas'ud Barzani was informed of this issue, and it supported extending help to Jalal Talabani to get rid of this pocket in northern Iraq, which is outside the control of the central authority.
The Fed would also take on a consultative role in regulating Fannie and Freddie, giving the central bank authority to assist in setting the companies' capital requirements.
The question Mundell avoids answering is how the central monetary authority, in whatever guise it ends up, will determine the demand for money so as to adjust the supply of money appropriately without inflating or deflating the currency?
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In the year through March, electricity demand exceeded supply by 10.1%, according to the Central Electric Authority of India.
Around 60 militias sprang up in the heat of the rebellion and its aftermath, many of them loth to submit to the rule of the new central authority.
In this grab bag of proscriptions and prescriptions, can we find a provision defining the size and scope of the central government authority in creating and maintaining a social welfare system?
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His proposal was reduced to a draft law calling for the replacement of Consob, the securities-market watchdog, with an Authority for the Protection of Savings, with various responsibilities and resources pinched from the central bank and the antitrust authority.
The Kurdish leadership agreed to a U.S.-sponsored compromise in 2005 in which the central government would have the authority to manage existing oil fields, but new fields would fall under the exclusive jurisdiction of the regions.
The sudden change of power in Cairo has accelerated the collapse of central authority in Sinai.
But the prospects of re-asserting central government authority over the lawless areas where al-Qaeda is based look, in the opinion of some analysts, remote - even with beefed-up American support.
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"In downtown Baghdad this morning we are seeing evidence of the collapse of any central regime authority, " Cheney told members of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
The latest released minutes of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee reveal that the panel rejected a proposal to dollarize the "aggregate balance" or the total of the clearing accounts banks maintain with the Monetary Authority, the de facto central bank.
The commissioner appointed to run Doncaster Council has recommended that the authority remains under central government control.
The fine was the first levied against a major corporation by Singapore's central bank, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, under rules governing market misconduct introduced last year.
Long-time observers see the Bonn meeting as a last chance to create a central authority that gives the country coherence without repression and modernises without trampling traditional ways of life.
The local wish for self-determination could make the Andar movement a longer-term challenge for the central government's authority.
In doing so, they are obliged to grant the central Soviet government the authority to negate virtually any act of a republic.
The Department of Health review also recommended the authority should be given central funding to help stamp out local variations in transplant services.
Hashimoto has also found with Noda important areas of agreement, particularly reforming the system of regional administration to create larger, more autonomous regional units that would take over authority from the central government.
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U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke called on lawmakers Tuesday to consider new rules to expand the central bank's authority over the financial markets, saying financial markets need to be more stable and resilient.
Leveraging the breakthroughs of public-key cryptography, bitcoin also uses peer-to-peer networking to operate without a central authority whereby the new issuance and transaction verification functions are carried out collectively by the network.
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The committee added that the split between Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank was a central obstacle to creating a united and democratic Palestinian state, and called for elections that could be accepted by all parties.
Some question the morality of authority given to a central bank which allows violent intervention in the marketplace to smooth out inflationary and deflationary pressures.
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The European Commission has warned that the bills on Hungary's central bank, the judiciary and data protection authority put those bodies' independence at risk.
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Indonesia's faltering economy and political scandals have also undermined the authority of the central government.
Another is giving a central government authority the ability to decide what gets paid for and what doesn't.
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