How To Use Council In A Sentence

A few days after, they brought the intelligence that Barbarina had returned; and the councillor dwelt with her in her new house; and the servants were commanded to call the signora Madame Cocceji. as she was his well-beloved and trusted wife. Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends
Second, if a Palestinian state is recognized along the 1967 lines in point of fact, nothing more than the 1949 armistice lines, this undermines UN Security Council Resolution 242 and 338 and the Camp David Accords, which call for a negotiated outcome and do not predetermine final boundaries. David Harris: Support Peace: Oppose Palestinian UN Gambit
‘The council operates a priority order for gritting roads and footpaths,’ a spokesman said.
A fellow council worker, who had just got out of the vehicle and was standing close at the time of the impact, suffered serious injuries.
The town council chairman said the grass outside the school was being churned up by tyres.

Hopefully, some of the more level-headed members of the council can prevail and make the Boom Town fiasco a bust.
Is the thrill of washing his socks so great that you have to pay council tax from the same address? The Sun
Contact your local council to campaign for pedestrian schemes in residential areas.
I am not convinced and that is why I have asked for this topic to be discussed at the town council.
Early adopters will include utility and energy companies, local councils, and companies and individuals who want to be seen to be green. Times, Sunday Times
She was a lively public speaker, a governor of two schools, and a member of Beverley Minster parochial church council.
The relevant principle is that if a member causes loss to the council he/she is liable to make good that loss if he/she has misconducted him/herself knowing that loss may result.
The council said that cuts to national park budgets risked undoing that work. Times, Sunday Times
The council's own footballing heroes successfully defended their title in the European Municipal Cup in St Malo, France.
By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
I don't think anybody that is associated with the Labor Council today under my leadership would believe that it runs factionally.
The two other witnesses interviewed are a former senior council official and a former lord mayor of Leicester. Times, Sunday Times
Permanent members of the United Nations Security Council have a veto over any proposal.
He continued he'd no doubt she would make an excellent councillor for the Ward 3 area and he had great pleasure in proposing her for the seat.
They will be sent out to businesses and public buildings such as libraries and council buildings.
The council's housing panel is expected to refer a 3.88 per cent rent rise to the authority's ruling executive for approval when it meets next Monday.
He resigned from the Council in 1990 when new rules prevented paid council officers sitting as elected members.
The parliament will elect a president and two vice presidents, who will form a presidential council.
But then, the Tea Council represents the trade and 93 per cent of British cuppas nowadays come from bags.
The council officers and the planning councillors are to be congratulated on it.
The Council meets on an ad hoc basis to discuss problems.
Swindon Council may also serve a warning notice on riders causing a noise nuisance.
The Council had considerable influence over many government decisions.
Give responsibility for minor decision making to the elder councils.
Table 10.1 illustrates this with reference to revenue expenditure on basic services by the ten district councils in the Greater Manchester area in 1987/8.
Their proposal to the Jewish council of religious leaders also called the Sanhedrin that they cooperate in getting rid of this troublemaker was met with enthusiasm. Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible
The council would assume legislative, judicial and executive powers.
It could, so various spokespersons for Leichhardt council, have “endangered staff and/or public.” Librarian Threatened to Stop Palestinian Exhibit
Jenny says if services do grind to a halt for a day it will at least demonstrate the importance and value of the work council staff do.
African tribal societies were traditionally ruled by a council of elders.
The councillors put the problem of downtown parking before the mayor.
After a two-hour meeting, a number of Kilkenny county councillors present undertook to raise the matter at their next Council meeting.
They have secured a deal to supply Waterford City Council with about 32,000 wheeled bins.
Wednesday's 5-0 council vote may leave bruises on largely white Portland, but the tone was less anti-immigrant than when a 2007 attempt to rename multiethnic and blue-collar Interstate Avenue was scrapped. Undefined
The shop is the first chippy in the borough to get the Heartbeat Award, given by the council to firms which try to help reduce the risk of coronary heart disease.
The council has been canvassing local opinion/local people to get their thoughts on the proposed housing development.
Coun Popple represents the Acklam ward and is deputy leader of the Conservative group on the council.
However, his brave deed and the actions of his colleagues is now likely to be recognised both by the Garda authorities and the Irish Safety Council.
However, the Medical Council feels it is hamstrung by 20-year-old legislation which restricts it from expanding the council to cope with its heavy workload.
He also introduced the concept of a stipendiary chairmanship, at one stroke freeing the council from its reliance on semi-retired highflyers from the business community.
By statute, the borough council has 30 days from the date of the nominations to pick one of the three to become mayor. Home News Tribune - News
Secondly, research looked at the relationship between these councillors and the local government officers employed to implement their decisions.
The council is committed to a programme of urban regeneration.
The council website says all cash from fines will go on transport services. The Sun
The council claimed its ambition to support the results of the scheme financially could not be achieved unless more than 120 employees were made redundant.
The Grand Forks City Council approved a transfer of the cable franchise recently to the partnership, which remains unnamed.
At their recent meeting the Parish Council were disturbed to find that both these bills have increased substantially.
Back in Oxford, he sat on the City Council, and began his lifelong activity of prison visiting.
He'd got up from the kitchen table and pedalled up the hill from the old tenement in Shuttle Place through the Darroch Council house scheme.
An interesting bit of backstory to the battle over Tim Burgess’ attempt to expand the definition of aggressive panhandling, which passed the city council 5-4 yesterday but faces a certain mayoral veto. After Giving Opponents Months to Organize Against Panhandling Proposal, Burgess Tried to Fast-Track Legislation « PubliCola
The local council has been thrown into total confusion by her resignation.
Maybe a councillor could take up my challenge with one of your intrepid reporters too.
It's been well noted at how the Lib Dems would do just about anything to win a vote but choosing a stripogram/kissogram to stand as councillor to rein in the votes is quite something! Stripping Lib Dems
But to some extent the role of central government is to encourage and cajole the national highways agencies and local councils to act to improve road safety. Times, Sunday Times
The county council has introduced pool cars for business trips, and last year adopted mileage rates of 40p a mile for staff using bikes on business.
Council also approved in principle the text for a booklet Guidance on professional conduct incorporating a code of professional practice.
The council wants to put the bus service on a commercial footing.
When you go to a conference you can sit in a room all morning and feel like you've heard all the speeches before," says Ian Usher, e-learning co-ordinator with Buckinghamshire county council and a TeachMeet organiser. Bett 2011 | In search of leadership
HOW dare councils whine about being starved of funds while blowing millions on undies using taxpayer-funded credit cards? The Sun
Before military action can lawfully be undertaken against Iraq, the security council must have indicated its clearly expressed assent.
It's a view the parish council holds to this day - and one with which the Highways Agency agreed.
By comparison, last year 30,000 new affordable homes, categorised as more expensive than council properties but priced at below market rates, were built in London and the south-east. Homes cuts: south-east 'faces disaster' over affordable housing
The council wanted a handy city centre venue where younger mums could share a coffee and discuss matters with other people facing similar challenges.
Following Alexander's formal abdication in September 1886, Stambolov headed the regency council.
The Labour council broke off negotiations after the strikes last week, claiming that there had been violence at the depot where the strikebreaking dustcarts operate.
Such of these principles as the Council found expedient at present to formularize, were set forth by it in "The Dogmatic Constitution of the Catholic Faith. History of the Conflict between Religion and Science
But councillors on the environment committee decided against imposing the changes.
At this point I must once again digress briefly to say that I am totally in agreement with the response of the President of the Canadian Labour Congress, Joe Morris, to the announcement last week that the federal government intends to impose works councils on industries coming under federal jurisdiction. Let's Get Back to People
Meal fees: Wear Valley district councillors are being asked to approve increased charges for meals on wheels and luncheon clubs.
Local district councillors are furious that they are being forced by the Government to introduce fees for commercial waste collection.
Regina herself went to the tribal council meeting Friday and demanded that the council do something about the matter.
City of York Council is to start work on the footway of Station Avenue - from the traffic lights to the city walls.
Pensioners already fighting to keep their heads above water are being asked to pay extra council tax to fund the refugee crisis.
Later that evening she will launch the festival and will be guest speaker at an event hosted by the heritage office of Carlow County Council.
Liz Broadley, the council's external funding manager, said the money would provide a much-needed boost in the less advantaged areas of Halifax.
While several councils have been fined for signing-off deficient work, in other cases councils have escaped responsibility because builders used independent certifiers.
I understood that he had stood down from his council posts, not the council, and had been deselected from the Labour Party.
All sorts of treasures have been found in the pile of waste, which is why the council receives income from the salvage contractor to help provide funding for a recycling advisor at the site.
The homeless families now reside in an abandoned neighborhood advisory council building located behind the former police station.
The council is understood to be concerned that fingers could become trapped when the scooter is folded or unfolded.
And when he was before the prince, he excused himself so sagely that the prince and his council held him excused, and so he fell again into the prince's love and redeemed out his men by reasonable ransoms; and the chatelain was set to his ransom of ten thousand franks, the which he paid after. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
Graduate of a City Council graffiti-spelling workshop for street kids, he knew how to decode the slogans of the day, how to phase them and how to remix them.
The cash-strapped councils need the money to plug leaks in school roofs, shore up unstable walls, install modern heating systems, repair cracked, draughty windows and remove temporary classrooms.
All the candidates won places on the ruling council.
Security Council, in its reaction to the September 11 attacks, obliged member states to "criminalize" terrorist attacks - not to declare war on terrorists. Daphne Eviatar: Graham Bill Plays Right Into al Qaeda's Hands
It approved a constitutional reform to make the members of the executive council direct representatives of their governments.
Two circulars of our state council about bankruptcy penetrate the precedency of legal effect, come into conflict with several upper laws, and violate the fair compensable principle of bankrupt system.
But the club's future is looking bright thanks to the generosity of donators and the repair work carried out by Greenwich Council.
City of York Council has been chosen to set up a Children's Trust pathfinder project, which also aims to boost learning.
Heaping blame on each other between the police and the Lusaka City Council over the issue of the Lusaka street vendors is uncalled for and totally unnecessary.
Swindon Council has called in the bailiffs to sort out motorists dodging parking fines.
The pub is one of a number of buildings being sold by the council to bring money back into its coffers.
But the party hopes that the formation of the new National Integration Council with senior leaders from the state and also from the peninsular will be a more permanent solution to help improve ties with the two East Malaysian states. SARA - Southeast Asian RSS Aggregator
Councils spent 50 million on clearing the rubbish and 17 million on enforcement action. Times, Sunday Times
Last year, the lights were not removed until March, occasioning embarrassment for both the Chamber and the Council.
Bury council hopes that cutting down from fortnightly collections of general waste will encourage recycling and save on landfill tax and treatment costs. Times, Sunday Times
Historically, orders of friars could not own property, and individual friars were beggars hence the term mendicant, although this was changed insofar as the orders were concerned by the Council of Trent. No Uncertain Terms
The local council runs some good play schemes.
And that's what it will come to, for the council workers and other public sector parasites.
He believed he was ‘untouchable’ but his victims finally became sick of the yob and helped a specialist council unit to boot him out of their neighbourhood.
The council has offered them temporary accommodation.
Your dismissal will be conveyed to the Traders 'Council, and to all the clanless traders as well, along with the reasons for my action. Scion of Cyador
They really feel comfortable talking about it afterwards with friends or teachers or even councilors, which is really rewarding. WHSV - HomePage - Headlines
The trust obtained planning permission for the pay and display equipment despite fierce objections to the scheme by councillors.
The nursing home say they did consult the council ... and have promised to carry out sensitive landscaping ... along the gap.
He said it had not been possible to find a source of substantial funding to operate the vessel and, as a result, it would place a big burden on the council.
Moreover, candidacy for technical membership has to be proposed and endorsed by council members.
It was acquired by Rotherham Council from the Wentworth Estate in the early 1980s but has been inaccessible to the public for the past 30 years.
The city council has to find a better way of dealing with domestic waste. One answer is to burn it.
The council has announced its intention to crack down on parking offences.
City of York Council says it has lost 119 places in nursing and residential homes after closures in the past year.
Its original plans were thrown out by the city council and are the subject of a forthcoming public inquiry.
He was introducing himself to the town council as the new Chief Inspector for the area.
The emphasis on councillors, officers and pressure groups proved to be a great limitation.
The developers have their mouthpiece lawyers in the city council meeting every morning while the rest of us are making love or rhyming words… how you gonna fight that?
The functions which may be exercised by parish, town and community councils are nearly all concurrent functions with district councils.
Although no firm proposals have been lodged with the council, exploratory drilling has commenced and the company has made a survey.
Council was addressing an application made for approval of a retaining wall that encroaches onto the boulevard.
The mayor, Dr. Arnold, was completely "subjugated," and, after consulting with him, I authorized him to assemble his City Council to take charge generally of the interests of the people; but warned all who remained that they must be strictly subordinate to the military law, and to the interests of the General Government. Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
Many sloppy councils don't bother to include this extra detail, which renders their tickets invalid. The Sun
Nudism, the council decided, was doing the resort more harm than good.
Though the borough claims such a service is uneconomical, a best value review recently completed by the county council recommends developing park and ride around Bedford.
So why would the BBC ignore a story about an African government's armed forces bombing a town and killing civilians in contravention of a peace deal and UN Security Council resolutions? Another story that the BBC won't be covering, preferring instead to cover Israel's wickedness
The county council has taken all our views on board and promised it will do its best to accommodate the wishes of the village within reason.
The practical work during the course also satisfies the Engineering Applications requirements of the Engineering Council.
Mrs Forbes accused the council of "grievously" letting down local residents. Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph
Why are so many cash-strapped councils wasting money on this kind of post? Times, Sunday Times
So, Sue asked the DUP councillor, could Katrina have been a divine judgement on born-again Christians?
I can understand a responsible Liberal minister deciding, ATC, not to open this can, but not without first tipping off the PM and probably not without tipping off the priviest part of the privy council the part that handles national security issues. Kory Teneycke, meet my tire iron.
The barrister acting for the community council is now objecting to the inspector's decision.
The attitude of the local council is lamentable in not grasping this opportunity with both hands.
But over time, the councils have enabled a more harmonious relationship: that of line manager and line managed. Times, Sunday Times
I am to convey to you an expression of the sincere sympathy of the Army Council.
Some of the new products included on the council's "stocktake" are new farm cottages, guest houses, a diving resort, a fly fishing club, river trips, safaris and mampoer and witblits tasting tours. ANC Daily News Briefing
All farmers, landowners and parish councils in the National Park can apply for grants from the money which has come through Yorkshire and Humber Regional Development Agency.
He spent 33 years as a parish councillor, 24 of them as parish council chairman.
Masham Parish Council wanted to add uplighters to the stone bridge over the River Ure at a cost of about £4,500, but the scheme is strongly opposed by North Yorkshire County Council whose officials say it would be illegal.
Under a barrage of criticism from furious shopkeepers, the council admitted there were still no proper signs at the approaches to the town directing people to the public car parks.
The site and its structures were eventually acquired by the city council with a view to renovating the ensemble to house a municipal library and archive.
The same is true of council tax, vehicle excise duty and fuel duty. Times, Sunday Times
The council house is planning to develop the area to the east of the town centre.
The jury is out on gold, and I have seldom seen such a divergence of opinion - if you cut out the World Gold Council, that is.
At present the provincial council is headed by a Shia governor. Times, Sunday Times
Many council house tenants were given significant incentives and discounts to buy their own home. Say Goodbye to Debt
It was impossible for Council officials to process that amount of work in one month.
The move is intended to encourage a greater takeup among local councils of directly elected mayors. Times, Sunday Times
Scarborough councillors are being recommended to grant approval on Wednesday.
Councils should be challenged to pay for tenants to attend so they can hear both sides of this argument.
And I'm not sure my friend realised that councils have many other ways of getting their council tax and some of them can have far-reaching effects that go beyond a short spell in the nick.
Council was incorporated by Labbe and Cossart in their collection of the Acts of councils; that of the works of St. John Climacus, published in 1614, was reprinted by Migne in his Greek patrology The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
In the important second chapter dealing with the Council of Trent and the popes contemporary with it, the stress is laid again on the importance of binding tradition.
Last week's picket forced the council to concede hours of informal and ultimately fruitless talks.
Ten years ago, officials from the Western Isles Council were sweating, hoping, praying, that the BCCI would somehow be refloated; that they would go back to work on Monday with their finances restored.
He has no problem with council handiwork such as the O'Connell Street plaza being ripped up, if necessary.
Some encourage tenant councils to hire and fire private management firms.
It was razed to the ground by the council. The Sun
With landed influence now increasingly concentrated in crown hands, the council of Arthur, prince of Wales, at Ludlow, was given greater powers to enforce law and order in the Welsh Marches and English border shires.
Council, and perhaps to implead me on the one part, and a presiding elder and conference on the other. Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.
The decision ultimately rests with the council.
On the same day, the municipal council broke down in half an hour in similar circumstances.
Aberdeen council was recently forced to backtrack on its single status plans after council workers threatened industrial action.
The council had no legal obligation to buy back the property and previous repurchases were virtually unheard of.
If the full number of members of either branch of the city council shall fail to be elected, or a vacancy shall occur in either branch, such branch shali declare a vacancy or vacancies to exist, and thereupon the board of aldern/en shall cause a new election to be held to fill the same. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch, now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.
The task group also want a breakdown and analysis of how many ethnic minority workers have been successful after applying for jobs at the council.
But bad behaviour is on the increase since the town council replaced the benches last month, they said.
The Jerusalem Rabbinate also works each year to ensure restaurants and hotels receiving kosher certification from the Jerusalem Religious Council do not put up Christian symbols. Matthew Yglesias » War on Christmas Just Got More Fierce
The council's failure to act is a scandal.
After paying emergency tax he found himself almost a third worse off than when he was on benefits and was summoned to court for council tax arrears. Times, Sunday Times
Municipal legislatures appeared especially prone to corruption, and consequently reformers proposed a shift in authority from the board of aldermen or city council to the mayor.
The Medical Council removed his name from the medical register in 1999 pending the outcome of its inquiry.
The council says the reason it has had to make cuts is because it has received a paltry amount of grant from the Government.
She received messages of support from high-ranking council officials and councillors. The Sun
In addition, to maintain credibility as a scientific advisory body, the council needs to speak with one voice.
The council later contracted another firm to complete the work, but at a cost of some €20m.
I have instructed our foreign secretary to submit before the UN security council and the UN assembly this militarisation, which is a serious risk to to international security". Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
How should the members of this informal elders council be chosen?
The council argue they have been working hard to resolve the issue but Charlotte is refusing to let workmen access the property to repair the damage.
Like the poll tax, the council tax would also take account of the number of adults in each household.
The local community council in what is a mixed residential district however is not as enamoured.
Bewildered by the suddenness of this blow, I could but watch in helpless silence the advancing throng, with my poor friends in their midst, their hands bound, their tottering footsteps directed by rude shoves towards the pipul tree, the accustomed assembly place of the villagers and the village council. Tales of Destiny
Signs exist to make driving safer, not to keep the regional council amused.
The council seems likely to overspend this year.
Also, Mousavi has written a letter (in Farsi) to the Iranian security council saying that personnel from the Ahmadinejad-loyalist Basij militia are doffing their uniforms and attacking innocent people in the streets. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Wednesday June 17)
These companies allow council bosses to avoid payroll taxes. Times, Sunday Times
I would also note that Caplan analogized his Council of Economists to the Supreme Court rather than a dictator, vetoing laws that are "uneconomical" rather than "unconstitutional". MRV update, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
The attack took place under the authority of the UN security council.
Union officers are defying the council ultimatum and continuing the jobs they were elected to.
Coun Kevin Lancaster said the council should press the Environment Agency to carry out the work after 2006.
There is, however, one basic fact, in that over 30 years in the ownership of Leeds City Council the Civic Centre has been allowed to deteriorate with enthusiastic neglect.
On Monday, members of the town council recreation and amenities committee despaired over the number of owners who continue to let their dogs foul public places.
There was no indoor tennis centre, just ramshackle old council courts and nowhere to have lessons. Times, Sunday Times
Promoting the town as a tourist attraction is to be one of the council's main objectives over the next 12 months.
But a spokesman denied his absence would jeopardise the smooth running of the general and county council elections.
Chairman Alex Carder told the parish council that a carol service had been held in the chapel at Christmas.

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