Exempel på canton

• He is not without weight in the councils of the canton. 

• It was a place of three thousand inhabitants—ambitiously denominated souls in the statistical tables—and was exceedingly proud of its title of chief city of the canton. 

• Some of the people of Switzerland were persuaded to belong to Austria, but all the people of the free cantons replied that they wished to remain free. 

• They include the whole population of the Italian cantons, and part of the French and German. 

• This city, and the little canton of which it is the capital, were then in a state of civil war. 

• None of the canton chiefs or their retainers were recruited locally.

• Secondly, several institutional veto points enabled cantons and interest groups to influence federal policies.

• In the meantime, together with the cantons, the federal government has introduced a model decree for isolation prescriptions.

• Firstly, all responsibilities in the field of social security were initially in the hands of the cantons.

• These result from the fact that advanced medical services offered in the central regions attract patients from neighbouring cantons.

• However, the cantons need to approve these agreements, and thus play an important role in determining the cost of health care provision.

• This procedure clearly favours small and predominantly conservative cantons, while urban agglomerations, regularly strongholds of leftist parties, are underrepresented.

• This non-decision has settled the issue at the federal level, but it is bound to come up again in the cantons.

• This justifies the treatment of the cantons as sovereign units in this analysis.

• Since 1965, legislation has required the cantons and communes to pay supplementary benefits to those whose old-age pensions are insufficient to cover their basic needs.

• It is taught not only as the idiom of a neighbouring canton but also as a medium for internal communication between the different language groups.

• Above all, the canton and its adjacent territory to the south-east constituted an early industrial district that combined several types of work producing textiles.

• Since the customs barriers between the twenty-two cantons had been eliminated, moreover, new connections among remote regions of the country started to emerge.

• The more centralized a canton in fiscal terms, the larger will be the public sector.

• The fault lies with the two chefs de canton.