How To Use city father In A Sentence
- The city fathers have just given final approval to a new stadium.
- the city fathers endorsed the proposal
- Though doubtless hallowed ground, the city fathers considered it now, 120 years on, far too valuable to languish as a repository for any fusty detritus the locals cared to throw in.
- The tide-lands had been in litigation for years, and he took the bull by the horns -- buying out the private owners and at the same time leasing from the city fathers. Chapter XVI
- There was the little park (or so the city fathers dubbed it; in fact the term was pure flattery). GALILEE
- In London: ‘In 1618 the city fathers complained that the multitude of alehouses and victualing houses within this city increasing daily are grown so dangerous and enormous as it is high time to suppress the number of them’.
- When those same city fathers renovated North Side in the mid-1960s, they decided to dismantle the Anderson monument and destroy the exedra, wiping away the evidence, and the residents did not stop them.
- The City Fathers have ripped out the plastic awnings put up in the mid 70s, and removed the huge dense trees - it now looks more like a real town instead of some collegial little city that went feral.
- When people complain, the city fathers point to things such as South Bend's recent designation as an "All American City," a designation bestowed by judges who haven't visited. Democrats and Dying Cities
- the city fathers tried vainly to find a solution
