1.   According to local wisdom, if the small guys fall, the end is near.

2.   Only in Edinburgh, a money-management center quite like Boston in many respects, did the developers find lenders willing to defy the local conventional wisdom.

3.   The prevailing local wisdom is that Bush eventually will go to Washington, leaving Perry as governor.

4.   We can learn from local wisdom about building technologies that have worked for centuries, designed to respect a given landscape and to suit a particular climate.

5.   Moreover, Thammarak said the bureaucracy should change its role from providing social aid to promoting local wisdom and should help the local communities to stand up by themselves.

6.   Support research, push for science and technology development, and promote local wisdom and national arts and culture.