The village mayor, who was elected for a five year term, was the official spokesperson of the village and the leader of the village council.

Each village is represented by a village council headed by the mayor, who is in charge of the village and its farmlands.

Mr. Gonbei!

That's our village headman.

Women make up 17 of rayon akim deputies, 11 of deputies of rural districts and town precincts, and 18 of their deputies.

The village head has the full registery of inhabitants, who pay no taxes.

The village headman is right.

I agree with Kin'emon.

I'm with Gorobei.

One of our bombers has been hit! Nishihara!

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Matsuura's wife... of Nagasaki

May we spend the night here?

Master Ichi's in trouble!

Open this shutter! Mr. Gonbei!

The village had a self organized school, whose head teacher was the informal village leader and seemed to be in charge of distributing whatever assistance was forthcoming.

The village mayor must be a chiefly title holder.

You intend to stay over in this country long, Mrs. Du Chenfrais?

And to introduce me to the village elders?

Mr. Ambassador, I'd like you to meet the village head man.

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You're the Mayor, right?

You remember the head man telling us about those warnings?

These three people in the village sat down and decided to think, How do we elongate the life of this girl of our village?

It's old Towser down at Withermarsh, sir.

This was clearly evident in the villages and village tracts in the target townships of HDI E project activities.

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(c) Average expenditure has risen rapidly in both rural and urban areas.

229. Amarão dos Santos, identified as the village head of Haupu, Letefoho, Ermera, East Timor, was allegedly beaten severely by military officers in January 1994.

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What goes on under the crust of this village would surprise anyone.

I believe that watermelon field belongs to Gonbei, the village headman.

Mr. Gonbei! Are you going to let Master Ichi die?

Village chiefs, group chiefs or other local party officials went from house to house collecting registration cards.

15. Women are well integrated in Tokelauan society. They participate fully in the village decision making process through women s committees, the Village Councils of Elders and their membership in the General Fono.

After being taken to the auxiliary mayor s office by a group of persons led by the auxiliary mayor himself, they were hung by the legs and doused with gasoline under threat of being set afire if they did not confess to having committed various robberies.

In the city itself, perhaps, but not in the outlying villages, Hsien Chang.

First, our president, Arimura, who acted as matchmaker, will present the bride and groom.

509. Ismail Keskin, former headman of Kazan village, and Ismail Demir were reportedly detained on 28 February 1996 by police in Hakkari (4 March 1996).

This has led to the articulation and preparation of village development plans by the villagers themselves, with minimum support from HDI E projects.

(b) Use of renewable sources of energy as rural growth impulses

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