Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the local level " in BNC.

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1 The difficulty we all share is how can one construct a planning framework which allows for strategically significant inward investment to be accommodated without declaring an open season of speculative proposals from developers and uncertainty at the local level up and down the county .
2 At the same time , local government and even more directly administered or corporatist elements of state action at the local level ( DHSS local offices , Manpower Services Commission , Health Authorities ) are , as Goodwin ( 1986 : 3 ) puts it , ‘ important in administering and implementing locally the decisions reached in central government , where weaker and subordinate groups are not dominant ’ .
3 It is also interesting as perhaps the key example of a special system designed to minimize political influence at the local level , since local authority involvement is only indirect and slight .
4 To be anti-suffrage was not necessarily to be anti-feminist ; many opponents of the suffrage , men and women , campaigned for better educational opportunities for women and supported their work at the local level .
5 Much of this citizenly activity will take place at the local level .
6 Therefore , although the service sector may be the mainstay of rural employment , it has a very uneven spatial distribution at the local level .
7 In giving his provisional ‘ No ’ , Mr Patten said : ‘ Only if Hampshire County Council and the districts address the issue of distribution ( of new houses ) together , and take account of opinion at the local level , are we likely to reach solutions which both meet the housing requirement and satisfy local environmental concerns . ’
8 For , as we shall see , political practice and behaviour at the local level can vary widely , even with the same party in control of the council chamber .
9 The research will provide a basis for assessing the nature of the politics of race at the local level .
10 Third , I hope further partnerships can be forged between organisations in the delivery of more effective service at the local level .
11 In the case of matching grants the central government agrees to match a certain proportion of the expenditures of the local authority ; for example , central government may pay x per cent of the total cost of providing a service at the local level .
12 The proposals mean that joint local planning and action will continue to be essential , but that responsibilities and accountability for the plans and action will be clearer than they are now … it must be emphasised that effective co-operation at the local level will be essential , both to the success of individual projects and , more broadly , if the whole range of community care services is to be delivered effectively .
13 If , as is argued here , the representatives of the state at the local level were widely viewed as indigenous , what prompted nationalist agitation ?
14 The students , especially the older ones , in the 1980 elections , wanted to change this set-up and introduce real choice at the local level , as one step towards democratisation .
15 Thus political diversity at the local level , crystallizing around the politics of local government , has been widespread for one hundred and fifty years .
16 In practice , however government at the local level is particularly confusing because of the variety of agencies which help to shape and administer local services .
17 The TPS through its operation at the local level integrates initiatives such as Compact , SCIP , SATRO and other education business practitioners .
18 Although radical politics of this kind remain in the minority , for both left and right , their development means that councils can experience large changes in their policies whilst remaining under the control of the same party - so increasing political variation at the local level .
19 Put simply , they believe aid fails due to the dichotomy between theory at a distance and practical reality at the local level .
20 While they were subject to important central pressures , the Area Chairmen and their Boards had considerable authority and status at the local level , which they sought to develop by rooting their Boards firmly in the local community .
21 Nevertheless , the research has identified ways in which a more systematic evaluation of polling districts and census zones can be achieved so that an integration of information about electoral behaviour and more general socio-economic information at the local level may be obtained .
22 Modernization at the local level was also a matter of patience :
23 The County Council does not have sufficient detailed information on the situation at the local level to be able to comment specifically on individual districts .
24 Analysis at the local level provides a more detailed insight into the nature of population change .
25 There is a renewal of interest in localities and the relationships between broad structural changes and social and economic change at the local level .
26 However , relatively little is understood about the links between economic and social change at the local level or the links between general processes at national level and specific local outcomes .
27 In 1980 , local elections were to be held , implementing the ‘ Gengshen Reforms ’ , which allowed for a small but significant element of democratisation at the local level .
28 The results , published in 1979 , demonstrate the confusion and disarray about the curriculum at the local level .
29 There were signs of reluctance to take seriously the need for revival of activity at the local level to overthrow apprenticeship before its due term under the act of 1833 .
30 Pressure group activity at the local level is considerable .
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