51.   Today there are fewer banks, with more remote branch offices, and an ever-shrinking percentage of ones with majority ownership in the hands of local citizens.

52.   Timber quotas are set annually not by local citizens but by Congress.

53.   When there were protests from local citizens and a member of Congress, Nydia Velazquez of New York, the agency released him on parole.

54.   Onlookers included local citizens as well as Europeans, Filipinos, Pakistanis and Indians.

55.   A group of local citizens criticized Kyushu Electric Power Co. for not stopping its nuclear plant in Sendai for inspection after the quake, Kyodo News reported.

56.   Despite the easing tension, local citizens are frustrated with the situation and staged a demonstration.

57.   Egyptians working in Arab states have to be sponsored by the host government or local citizens.

58.   He also served as field director for the National Democratic Institute in the west African nation of Ghana, where he trained local citizens to serve as election monitors.

59.   In response, a local citizens group has invited organizations that advocate tighter controls on immigration to a meeting of its own next month.

60.   It said the stoning was carried out by local citizens in public in Khazar Abad, near the Caspian Sea.