direct rule

For 14 months, they have lived under the king's direct rule.

In any case, however, we cannot give up direct rule as a method of management.

He wants to end direct rule and hold new local elections this summer.

This involved a loss of direct rule by the English crown.

The Commissioners would maintain this form of direct rule for nearly a century.

No direct rule can be made since much depends on how well the plants are growing before application.

Direct rule continued for 14 months until new state legislature elections could be held.

The new body will restore local government here for the first time since the British imposed direct rule in 1972.

This land was once under the direct rule of the Erek-jhip-zhonad.

However, the differences between direct and indirect rule "was a legal rather than a practical one1".

The principality would revert to direct Byzantine rule on Bohemond's death.

In 1689 the royal charter to the colony was withdrawn, leading to direct rule by the British Crown.

It proposed an end to direct rule from Paris and a vote on independence, to be held in 1998.

Both unionists and nationalists frequently objected to direct rule, since the system gives the people of Northern Ireland relatively little democratic say over their own governance.

Having secured his route, John embarked on a new expedition into Syria determined to reduce Antioch to direct imperial rule.

Latakia and Cilicia, however, were to revert to direct Byzantine rule.

Then, Raymond would rule the new conquests and Antioch would revert to direct imperial rule.

That had stymied legal steadholder opposition to direct rule, and even if they'd wanted to, no Key had dared resort to extralegal means.

Newfoundland between 1907 and 1934 when Newfoundland gave up self-government and reverted to direct rule from London.

The Roman presence increased from sporadic intervention, to creating client states to direct rule by provincilisation.