But, he said, "we don't know how much authority to devolve to counties and cities" because Washington has not decided how much power to give the states.

Because authority devolved on the senior crew member present andDahak had chosen to regard a primitive from Earth as a member of his crew.

Various national officials are more obliged to address the separate republic governments, where authority is devolving, and authoritative information is more elsusive than in the days of the central Kremlin monolith.

Under the new Constitutional Charter, most federal functions and authorities devolved to the republic level.

USAID is targeting capacity building for local government officials, who will have more authority and responsibility devolved from the central government, as well as providing grants to fund small-scale infrastructure projects.

As a result of constitutional reform enacted in 2001, federal authorities devolved responsibility for ensuring religious instruction, financial accountability of religious groups, and religious buildings to other levels of government.

The vast majority of cases involving peasants were heard in local courts, but the judges in those courts wielded an authority devolved in principle from the king.

"Does the authority for this matter then not devolve on thee, the only Hectare to know its nature in time to act?"

Beard being dead, authority devolved to a reluctant Charnock as commander-in-chief.

The introduction of the federal principle, with deliberative authority devolved on the regions, signaled recognition of the country's diversity.