Sentences with phrase «traditional authorities at»

Traditional authorities at the end of the meeting issued a communiqué prohibiting child marriage and teenage pregnancies in the district.

The traditional authority at Atebubu banned Sanja Nanja from engaging in any social or political activity in the area for raining insults on the Queen - mother during an interview with a local radio station.

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With less than three weeks until the Pope's arrival, Chilean authorities said they were working with the Roman Catholic Church to prepare for an onslaught of tourists at the peak of the austral summer, a traditional time for vacationing in both countries.

At both the institutions I have mentioned, the seminar form is inseparable from the subject matter; these colleges fruitfully combine the traditional and the radical, the conservative and the postmodern, the authority of great texts and the egalitarianism of discussion.

Speaking at a colloquium on Peaceful Election in Accra, Dr. Chambas also called on civil society, religious leaders and traditional authorities to assume their role in this national endeavour.

The Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, who spoke to journalists after being summoned by the Kumasi Traditional Council, however said authorities will not be in a rush to enforce order at the...

Speaking at Kyebi as Okyeman marked this year's Ohum Festival, the overlord of the Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Authority said it was important for government to ensure that Ghanaians are relieved from their hardships.

«In a traditional year they would wait for the last minute and then issue authority for putting out $ 10 billion in bonds,» said Gene Russianoff, staff attorney at the Straphangers Campaign.

The decision was largely criticized by residents of Cape Coast, who accused the traditional authorities of allowing themselves to be induced at the expense of upholding an old cultural practice.

The Australia - UK collaboration led by Professor Neil Selwyn at Monash University's Faculty of Education found that while Wikipedia was a popular background resource with students, it had not supplanted traditional sources of intellectual scholarship and authority.

«At UNICEF, we'll continue to work with national authorities, health workers, and traditional and religious leaders so that vaccines remain well accepted and reach every community across the meningitis belt.»

The Tourism Authority of Thailand Phuket office (TAT) and Phuket City will combine the Chinese New Year celebrations with the annual Old Phuket Festival at the public park next to the TAT offices on Phuket Road with many colourful shows including a dragon dance and traditional dances.

At the end of the piece, Owens shifts his focus from contemporary painting to larger social issues, in particular «the authoritarian call for a return to traditional values which, we are told, will resolve the crisis of authority in advanced industrial nations.»

These breaches in the construct of Soleimani's characters serves to expose the bodies of those in power to symbolic acts of violence as well as subvert their traditional displays of masculinity and authority; at the same time, it reveals the bodies of those that might suffer at the hands of men in power as they accrue wealth through brutal acts of exploitation against humanity and the earth.

A leading authority on Asian contemporary art, she has initiated a number of major initiatives at the Asia Society Museum, including the launch in 2007 of a contemporary art collection to complement the museum's renowned collection of traditional Asian art.

At the urging of the gun lobby, however, most states have explicitly removed authority from local governments to regulate guns and ammunition, thereby creating a dangerous exception to the traditional rule of local authority.

US tax authorities have made use of less traditional intermediaries to track online sales, notably to recover sales taxes imposed at a higher rate in the buyer's state than in the seller's — as is often the case for alcohol and tobacco.

- They tend to be decentralized, meaning there's no central authority behind them — unlike a traditional database, which can be shut down or censored at the will of its owner.

Science now understands how the human brain grows and develops during childhood, and how inter-related brain systems for emotion, motivation, communication, authority, and social relationship operate to determine children's social, behavioral, and emotional expressions; and we now know how to resolve many of the traditional problems of childhood, including excessive anger and defiance, impulsivity, depression and withdrawal, and poor self - motivation at home and school.

Strategies: Promote respect fro traditional family values and systems of authority through formal recognition; support and resource forums, camps and activities that address social wellbeing for youth, men and women; identify demographic needs at the regional and local level, establish targets and performance standards and revisit State based policies; monitor effectiveness of parenting programs; ensure that information about existing government assistance programs and services is made available to all communities, organisations and individuals.