1.   Council leaders will in turn sit on larger district bodies, and will have all-important control of police and local bureaucrats.

2.   Labour, on the other hand, wants to abolish A-levels and return schools which would prefer to govern themselves to the control of local bureaucrats.

3.   And, said one Vietnamese who owns a small business in Hanoi, local bureaucrats who enforce scores of often ambiguous regulations must undergo a fundamental shift in attitude.

4.   Given an assignment to write about British cultural policy in Hong Kong, she was rebuffed by the local colonial bureaucrats.

5.   Here he persuaded a local bureaucrat to supply him and his companions with three elephants.

6.   It was this fight against local bureaucrats that catapulted the previously apolitical Melinda Wilde into the public arena.

7.   Local bureaucrats and politicians still interfere even though laws have been changed to make it easier to do business.

8.   Mrs. Baslovyak, who tirelessly lobbied local bureaucrats to allow Alyona to be an exception, said Wednesday that she felt more optimistic.

9.   The French authorities have appointed a policeman, a schoolteacher and a local bureaucrat to run the town until the financial fog clears.

10.   The scramble for money has drawn local bureaucrats and even military officers into entrepreneurial schemes that further weaken their ties to the center.