21.   It also provides for the president to dismiss elected governors and dissolve local legislatures that violate federal law.

22.   It also contains provisions for the president to dismiss elected governors and dissolve local legislatures whose policies are determined by courts to violate federal law.

23.   Land purchases are currently regulated by many complex laws and regulations approved by local legislatures.

24.   Land purchases are currently regulated by a multitude of complex laws and regulations approved by local legislatures.

25.   Komeito members of local legislatures will stay separate from the New Frontier Party and form a new party.

26.   Land deals are currently regulated by myriad laws approved by local legislatures, and the legal confusion has created a rich breeding ground for corruption.

27.   Last month, Britain scrapped laws making homosexuality a crime in the Cayman Islands and four other territories after local legislatures refused to do so.

28.   Mr Lu, in his report to local legislature, admitted that the province was experiencing difficulties in unemployment and irregularities in the banking and financial sectors.

29.   Nor did Tang mention controversies over changes in election methods that ensured a pro-Beijing majority in the local legislature.

30.   Several hundred students have taken over the local legislature in the eastern Javanese city of Surabaya demanding the local governor resign.