It reduces these to the levying of taxes and the supervision of roads and canals; it purges them out through its agents; it even purges out the governments of municipalities and districts.
The execution of the laws depends on striking off the heads of the guilty, for nearly all the rural municipalities are composed only of the rich, of clerks of former bailiffs, almost always devoted to the ancient régime.
As to municipalities and also department and district administrations, these are one-half renewable annually.
The municipalities have always got themselves exempted from the requisitions, which all fall on the farmers and proprietors unable to satisfy them.
The application of revolutionary laws and measures of general security and public safety is confided to the municipalities and revolutionary committees.
I am satisfied, during the course of my mission, of the necessity of reorganizing the municipalities throughout both departments.
The jurisdiction of the justices of the peace for the municipalities in which such towns or places are situated, and of the justices of the peace appointed for such towns or places, are concurrent over cases arising within the municipality.
In the early days of civil government the commission in many instances combined municipalities which lay immediately adjacent to each other and could readily enough be administered from a common governmental centre.
In many, if not most, cases such fusion of municipalities proved a mistake.
Parliamentary committees and committees of the municipalities of Copenhagen are chosen by a proportional method.
The views taken by the Commission in respect of an elective Second Chamber and municipalities have found expression elsewhere.
It had been the custom for the municipalities to send special commissioners to the capital to negotiate for them with the crown.
The kings and the municipalities had their separate mails, but in Catalonia there was also a private mail-carrying industry as early as the latter part of the thirteenth century.
This was due in part to the intervention of the state, which supplanted the municipalities in control of the institution.
These villages were desirous of local autonomy, because the municipalities on which they depended were wont to exploit them or to exclude them from a share in government.
In two classes of municipalities the royal victory was not complete.
In some instances the Catholic Kings resorted to force to reduce municipalities which were too autonomous in character, notably in the case of the hermandad of the north coast towns, whose decadence dates from this reign.
The municipalities also erected public edifices, such as merchants' exchange buildings and city halls.
The municipalities continued to be the principal centre of regional autonomy, however, especially the more important towns, which protected the lesser settlements through an institution similar to the Catalonian carreratge.
Municipalities and groups of merchants (especially the consulados) did something, but were hampered by the centralizing spirit of the government.
The grog-shops of the great cities have always appointed the municipalities as their own standing, committees.
The provincial assemblies of Dauphine and elsewhere gave the signal; and numerous towns, following the example of Paris, instituted municipalities which substituted their authority for that of the intendants and their subordinates.
Further and substantial aid from the Exchequer was necessary to save the municipalities from bankruptcy; but mere subsidies without conditions would be pernicious.
Belgians, and the State Governments and a large number of Municipalitiesalso contributed handsomely to the same cause.
After protesting against the attack on Mr. Cassel for defending the rules and practice of the House, he said it was the conditions imposed by the Chancellor which made it impossible to give the strangled municipalities relief.
The first step was to see that themunicipalities investigated thoroughly the conditions in their districts, and this would be done by the President of the Local Government Board.
The various royalist, imperialist and republican governments and municipalities of modern France have often been described as 'paternal,' but no governments and municipalitiesin the whole civilised world have done less for the very poor.
The modes in which the fully developed municipalities of the Antonine age had originated and were organised were very various.
But a survey of the inscriptions may incline the inquirer to believe that, according to their means, there were many men and women in obscure municipalities all over the world, who were as generous and public-spirited as Pliny.
Not less heavy was the demand made on the patrons of municipalities and colleges.
The famous bridge of Alcantara was erected in the reign of Trajan by the combined efforts of elevenmunicipalities in Portugal.
In the poems of Juvenal and Martial, as in the sentiment of the colleges and municipalities for generations, the one hope for the mass of helpless indigence lay in awaking the generosity and charity of the rich.
And in another point we can see that the municipalitieshave entered on that disastrous decline which was to end in the ruin of the fifth century.
But what of the great masses lying outside the circle of cultivated and exhausted self-indulgence, that plebeian world of which we have seen the picture in their municipalities and colleges?
The greatest monuments of Italian Gothic design are the cathedrals, in which, even more than was the case in France, the highly developed civic pride of the municipalities expressed itself.
It was in Italy, where feudalism had never fully established itself, and where the municipalities and guilds had developed, as nowhere else, the sense of civic and personal freedom, that these symptoms first manifested themselves.
The municipalities are divided into six classes according to population, a classification which permits considerable special local legislation in spite of the constitutional inhibition.
Not a cent brought a dividend; instead, the municipalitiesfound themselves saddled with heavy interest payments.
Other roads were indebted to Canadian municipalities in nearly ten millions for principal alone.
Prudent municipalities which had declined to borrow at eight per cent found themselves compelled to share the burdens of their reckless neighbours.
Hincks now provided that municipalities which wished money to aid railways or other local improvements might practically pool their credit and share in the credit of the province.
This was an ingenious attempt to give the municipalities the prestige of provincial connection without accepting any legal responsibility.
Municipalities had previously been permitted to bonus or take stock in railways and toll-roads, but their securities were unknown in the world's markets.
The state gave the new company millions of acres of land and a cash subsidy, municipalities offered bonuses, and a small amount of stock was subscribed locally.
Most of the lesser roads constructed looked to the municipalities rather than to the provinces for aid.
She seldom gave any opinion on the revolution, but frequently attended the municipalities to solicit the pensions of the expelled religious, or on any other occasion where she could be useful to her friends.
It may be added that some English municipalities have established depôts for supplying mothers cheaply with good milk.
Later one or twomunicipalities were founded--Colonia Agrippinensis at Cologne (A.
The old Celtic tribes were broken up: instead, municipalities of Roman citizens were founded to rule their territories.
Roman municipalities were not indeed unknown, but very few: the local authorities were the magistrates of the old tribal districts.
Religious minorities in school municipalities have the alternative of separate schools, and attach considerable importance to this provision.
In these municipalitiesthe levying of the local taxes is vested, and they administer the monies collected for roads, bridges, schools, and improvements, and the local administration of public justice.
Many Roman municipalities were still subsisting without influencing any event of at all a general kind, and without leaving any trace; and as the feudal system grew and grew they still went on in the midst of universal darkness and anarchy.
Up to that time most of the cities were comparatively small, and no thought was given by the variousmunicipalities to treating the combined sewage as a whole.
Accordingly, in tracing the origin of one hundred and eighty libraries in continental Europe, it has been discovered that all of them, except sixteen, were presented to the municipalities by book-lovers.
I put that forward as an amendment, that the municipal governments and boards of education in our municipalities be forced to give men positions of equal grade if they cannot give better grade.
The Municipalities may, according to laws and arrangements established by them, install in all available lodgings citizens who have no place to live, or who live in congested or unhealthy lodgings.
All class institutions of any sort, with their property, their rules of procedure, and their archives, are transferred to the administration of the Municipalities and Zemstvos.
The Municipalities may issue orders on the institution of House Committees, define their organisation, their powers and give them juridical authority.
Elections to the Municipalities are being conduct in a better and more democratic way than the elections to the Soviets… All classes are represented in the Municipalities….
The Municipalities may establish a service of inspection of dwelling-places, organise it and define its powers.
The Municipalities may create Housing Tribunals, define their powers and their authority.
Los Angeles is doing something similar on even a larger scale, and other municipalities are following suit.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "municipalities" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
