11.   The greed for power of local politicians is simply amazing.

12.   The recompense is meagre, but when combined with ideological enthusiasm it helps sustain a new type of local politician.

13.   There is a move among many local politicians to demand increased powers in response to this offloading.

14.   Yet fixing them will cost billions of dollars that local politicians can not raise from taxes.

15.   ...the exploitation of the famine by local politicians.

16.   An alliance of black groups, the liberal press, Californian celebrities and local politicians exerted increasing public pressure for the resignation of Gates.

17.   The French government leaves all the responsibility to the local politicians, who have no environmental awareness and see the forest as a sign of under-development.

18.   Work on other parts of the route, which is strongly supported by local politicians, is already well under way.

19.   We turned the conversation to a local politician.