regional grouping

All three countries had received endorsements from their regional groupings.

If a merger is required, the partner usually comes from this regional grouping.

These portals are usually based around a specific national or regional groupings of institutions.

The 1997 Asian financial crisis had demonstrated the need for regional groupings and initiatives.

While not official administrative divisions for most purposes, these regional groupings are quite significant in daily life.

Poverty appears to be largely concentrated within the regional groupings in Guatemala.

The chair rotates annually among the members and is selected from a different regional grouping of countries.

The local government areas in New South Wales have created regional groupings.

Several panel members suggested that local districts could absorb those costs if they saved money by joining together in regional groupings.

Over the years, small employers around the country, often led by chambers of commerce, have occasionally sought to band into regional groupings.

Status: Regional grouping aimed at co-ordinating legislation on economic, social, cultural, scientific and legal concerns.

In Canada, the terms "tribe" and "tribal chief" are only used for voluntary regional groupings of bands.

The seats are allocated to each region of the world, which chooses its own candidate and agrees to support those selected by other regional groupings.

Others are official and are part of regional groupings artificially created for various administrative purposes.

Two of the states he mentioned - Oman and Yemen - already belong to other regional groupings.

But how does this melodramatic struggle between haves and have-nots fit into a picture of three regional groupings?

In addition, their successful regional grouping holds to a dream of including all 10 Southeast Asian countries by the end of the century.

Population distribution, by regional grouping, 1701-1981 (per cent)

This was the first time since 1991 that there was no consensus candidate from the regional grouping, thus invoking a secret ballot vote.

The party is split into regional groupings, with party activists in each region responsible for the promotion of the party and its cause.

A criticism of the regional grouping system is the pressure brought to bear on members to vote consistent with the majority of their regional group.

It resulted in the five independent defence networks, assembled more or less along regional groupings rather than the political combinations which dominated the previous century.

The totems cross regional groupings and therefore provide a wall for development of ethnicism among the Shona groups.

There are 63 ZECs distributed across 11 regional groupings.

The seven socio-cultural regional groupings are: