How To Use Mayoral In A Sentence

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 final days of the mayoral campaign find mayoress Kathy Baildon in a familiar pose: in the campaign office, surrounded by charts and calendars, phone glued to her ear.
No. It means a lot of things," says the once and future bookseller who's nearing the end of his two-term mayoral stint. NPR Topics: News
We now get a glimpse into the reactionary politics, racism, and social parasitism of his mayoral administration.
I'll recap my recap: Brown was a minor mayoral candidate who was a nonfactor in last September's Democratic primary, but he made some waves on the campaign trail by reliably bashing Adrian Fenty and lauding victor Vincent C. DeMorning DeBonis: Feb. 25, 2011

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Labels: 2009 mayoral election, craig x rubin, David "Zuma Dogg" Saltsburg, david hernandez, phil jennerjahn, The Great Debate, walter moore Archive 2009-02-01
He stands to guide me to the door, then stops to point out a photo of himself looking somewhat starstruck and goofy-grinned beside four hoary men, his mayoral predecessors.
The battery business is being caretaken by a competitor for the duration of his Lord Mayoralty.
The mayoral elections in London are proving very revealing and informative.
The words I had overheard bore no reference to Bartleby but to the success or nonsuccess of some candidate for the mayoralty. Bartleby
Sir William Lucas had been formerly in trade in Meryton, where he had made a tolerable fortune and risen to the honour of knighthood by an address to the King during his mayoralty.
National Post, flatly denies any conflict and notes editorial page editor John Coleman has been "recused" from any discussions and writing of editorials on the mayoralty during the race. Thestar.com - Home Page
I think this ordinance is addressing a problem that doesn't exist ( "aggressive panhandling" is not my issue downtown) -- unless we're talking about Burgess 'mayoral ambitions (and, hey McGinn, way to set up a preview of the next election by vetoing this). Tim vs. Tim: The Aggressive Panhandling Ordinance « PubliCola
He called for more transparency by mayoral agencies, with agendas and plans made available online in advance, with digitized records for inserting comments, and "livestream" -- not sure if he meant audio or video -- of all meetings. Atlantic Yards Report
mayoral elections
We worship our newly enlarged, all powerful, democratically elected mayoral overlord.
The public input portion of Monday's debate kicked off with criticism from two failed mayoralty candidates who ran for office in November's election.
Mr Latham's mayoral decisions, including the capital works, were taken with the support of his council at the time.
This was his last official engagement in Sligo before Monday's mayoral election.
They were somewhat contemptuous of the small-bore, mayoral approach of the Clinton administration in his second term.
Consequently the mayoral incumbent must perform a delicate juggling act to maintain constituent support.
What remains unsaid is that the Mayor's interest in REINING THINGS IN doesn't seem to extend to her 'Mayoral' expenses, where -- if last September is an indication -- we're on target to clock in at over $35,000 per year in eats and treats. Archive 2007-04-01
In fact, in three of the five elections named (the 2004 federal election and both the mayoral and aldermanic races in the 2001 civic election), I voted for the candidate who finished last.
Throwing him out of the party tore London Labour apart, cost us the mayoralty and on the positive side, showed what the limits were for the left.
The incident, which occurred during the Mayoral election period, was due to be discussed at the Borough Council meeting on Tuesday night but a drawn out debate on budgeting meant the issue was guillotined.
The recent London mayoral election saw a dramatic return to the popularity of the old hustings with packed meetings. Times, Sunday Times
IRV can fail this criterion, as it did in the Burlington, VT mayoral election of 2009, as well as the monotonicity criterion discussed above. Matthew Yglesias » David Miliband Doesn’t Know What Century It Is
• Things are hotting up on the mayoral trail in London, where Boris Johnson rules the roost and Ken Livingstone will fight Oona King for the right to try to depose the Tory champion. Diary
Between the two Daleys, we did manage to elect and reelect Harold Washington, a small-d as well as large-D democrat, who treated his mayoralty as a cooperative project with the people and communities he governed. Kelly Kleiman: Democracy Is Not a Tragedy
Swett battled for the full reform program: to make everything, even the mayoralty, an appointive rather than an elective office.
The current proposal is for a dedicated tax to be added to the already-bloated cost of London's mayoralty.
Lord Mayor -- and the three great eras of my existence were the year of my shrievalty, the year of my mayoralty, and the year after it. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829
If none of the councillors win the mayoralty then three will go.
A LEADING contender in the mayoral race in Los Angeles wants to beef up the city's police force.
But he kept his nerve, geed up the bus system and forced it through at a time when he was politically vulnerable before the mayoral elections.
That might be optimistic: insiders predict a far lower turnout for the mayoral election. Times, Sunday Times
A mayoral report published just prior to his arrival took the police department to task over its information infrastructure.
The reformers proposed to amend mayoral elections so that the assembly would nominate two jurats, from whom mayor and jurats would select one for the following year's mayor.
With the mayoral election looming it has been postponed until the summer. Times, Sunday Times
The mayoral candidate has promised to purge the police department.
Why waste all this money on allowances, mayoral houses, mayoral vehicles, meetings, workshops, etc?
As the opposite sides in the mayoral race draw their lines and gear up for the all-island slugfest, the detritus of local obsolete municipal councils are getting themselves ready to make their now-squelched voices heard.
A quick recap: Brown was a minor mayoral candidate who was a nonfactor in last September's Democratic primary, but he made some waves on the campaign trail by reliably bashing Adrian Fenty and lauding victor Vincent C. Read Sulaimon Brown's resume -- is he qualified for $110K job?
Smiling proudly, Mayor Metwinger straightened his purple mayoral robes and gulped in a big breath, prepar - ing to ad-lib the traditionally long but unwritten kender marriage ceremony. Stalling
But the minute the police chief as mayoral candidate, the fast-talking power broker, and his misfit cast of drunk and clichéd socialites show up, the movie goes painfully askew.
While they guarantee all of the top jobs - including the mayoralty - to members of certain political parties, equally they deny others the signal honour of wearing the chain of office.
In two mayoral elections over the past month in such towns, the pro-nuclear incumbents won landslide elections over anti-nuclear opponents. Living by Reactors, Japanese Are Split
The mayoral election is regarded as the litmus test for the integrity of the electoral process.
The mayoral pieces are all kept in a vault in the bank because of their value, but the furniture and paintings are on display in the town hall.
Eventually some one will emerge from the muck, the rusty mayoral crown askew on a weary head.
They would all willingly forfeit any hope to win the mayoralty rather than make such a class appeal.
He eschewed his $195,000 annual mayoral salary, in favor of $1 a year.
Various local news sites plan to webcast each of the mayoral debates.
When I campaigned for Police Community Support Officers in 2000, as the Mayoral candidate for London, the idea was dismissed by my opponents.
They earn a twentieth of his wonga from mayoral and writing duties, but times are tight. Diary
New Bern's mayor race (I hate the word mayoral, so I avoid using it) has a lineup of candidates right out of central casting. Undefined
He showed me around his neighborhood with a sort of informal mayoral pride.
You never hear anything interesting about that mayoral campaign.
She has managed to get in a barroom brawl, threatened to shoot a mayoral staffer as well as have him beaten up, and twice called a burly and bald fellow council member “Shrek” during a public hearing. FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
The mayoral election is regarded as the litmus test for the integrity of the electoral process.
Questions were asked about the use of the mayoral carriage for his wedding.
Tingey believed that, until 1449, only mercers had been permitted to hold the Norwich mayoralty; in fact a hosier was mayor in 1415 and a butcher in 1422.
In 1936, Wick mounted an odd campaign for Portland's mayoralty.
IRV can fail to select the beats-everybody-else candidate, as it did in the Burlington, VT mayoral election of 2009, as well as fail the monotonicity criterion discussed above. Matthew Yglesias » Pining For White Supremacy
By standing as a mayoral candidate I wanted to act as a voice of dissent against the corporatisation of the city I love.
Ironically, the first step in the Bloomberg prescription to other municipalities is absolute and total mayoral control of the schools. Andrew Wolf: Did New York Allow Superman to Pass us by?
Malmesbury's collection of antique art, furniture and mayoral regalia is being valued this week by fine art expert Stephen Hill.
Many Labour Party members believed that the ballot to elect a mayoral candidate was rigged.
Your mayoralty has been from start ' till now a disaster in the making.
I myself had attended a naval and military review and a mayoral banquet.
He would soon be writing to RAZ asking the referees' body to excuse him so he could concentrate on his mayoral duties.
A mayoral spokesman said the ban sends a defeatist message to the rest of the world.
Ken Livingstone, followed by mayoral rival, Oona King. Michael White's conference diary: Lord Prezza's quiet exit
Positions such as mayoralties are not the property of certain parties to be carved up between them; they're the property of the people.
In late 2008, Azagaia participated in the mayoral campaign of independent Deviz Simango in Beira, appearing at rallies in the city to large audiences, captured on the blog of Serra [pt], who has been his biggest supporter in the Mozambican blogosphere. Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias
All candidates in Chicago's mayoral race have one thing in common: Like millions of afflicted Chicago residents, they're all breathing the same cankered air from the city's two infamous Model-T-era coal-fired plants. Jeff Biggers: Rahm, Carol, Tom, Luis and Rev. Meeks: Chicago's Next Green Mayor Will Join Sunday's Clean Air Race
JP Smith, the city's mayoral committee member for safety and security, said the seven-storey block, whose entrance is in Keerom Street near the Cape High Court, would be the first candidate for the problem buildings bylaw which is expected to be passed at the end of the month. IOL: News
Just possibly, the politicians might begin debating that as they campaign for November's mayoral election.
Last month the Southern party, which advocates secession, won its first mayoral victory, in a village in Alabama.
For one thing, those close to him insist he wants no part of Toronto's mayoralty.
He suggests in the book that although he has suffered from myocardial infarction, his abilities would be not be beneath those of his competitors in any mayoral race.
Any other guest stars, besides Steve Guttenberg as a mayoral candidate?
But don't you think a mayoral chain of office would be just a little too ostentatious, even for your most dumb-witted feral toerag on the street?
The city added 430,000 new jobs during his mayoralty - Gotham's greatest job growth ever.
Mayoral coffers will hardly match the riches of the Spanish Main, the Times reports: When it comes to localism, absolute clarity of aim is essential
In a three-hour private training session last week, Banks was advised to change his shirts, talk more often about his tough childhood and be "chattier" if he wants to win the super-mayoralty in October. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
John Paul is one of the Woodfield area candidates taking part in the mayoral event and he will give his blessings to all who support this venture.
With the mayoral election looming it has been postponed until the summer. Times, Sunday Times
Consequently the mayoral incumbent must perform a delicate juggling act to maintain constituent support.
Tingey believed that, until 1449, only mercers had been permitted to hold the Norwich mayoralty; in fact a hosier was mayor in 1415 and a butcher in 1422.
The mayor of Swindon arrived in his full mayoral regalia with his wife and mayoress, Pamela.
Then it was off to a closed meeting between members of the mayoral committee and local councillors.
This battle between mayoralty and state legislature would rise again as future Irish mayors struggled to affirm their power as Boston's chief executive.
At a "trial" held at DC 37 of AFSCME American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees sponsored by the Coalition for Public Education forpubliced.org and hosted by Sam Anderson, a noted educational leader dedicated to wresting the school system out of mayoral control, testimony was given by dozens of parents, teachers and concerned educators describing the negative effect the mayor's "educational reform" has produced in what seems to be a part of a nationwide attempt to privatize the public schools, deskill teachers, strip them of their union rights, and firmly establish a two-tier educational system: one for the privileged and one for everyone else. Joel Shatzky: Educating for Democracy: The People's Trial of Mayor Bloomberg
KAOHSIUNG -- The Kuomintang's (KMT's) Kaohsiung mayoral candidate Huang Chao-shun will travel to Singapore at the end of August to learn from the city state's development experience, her economic consultant Ma Kai said yesterday. China Post Online - Taiwan , News , Taiwan newspaper
The impeached former Illinois governor's retrial is set to start in January, when the mayoral campaign should be in full swing. Rahm Emanuel Snubs Pilsen Sit-In Protesters During 'Listening Tour'
He wanted the newly powerful mayoralty that Fitzgerald had.
Consequently the mayoral incumbent must perform a delicate juggling act to maintain constituent support.
He told The New York Times in an interview published Monday he believes the charter allows the City Council to grant Bloomberg permission to break a voter-approved two-term mayoral term limit without a referendum. Latest News - UPI.com
Will Fenty’s loss diminish faith in mayoral control turning around failing schools? Will Rhee be a footnote in school reform history?
He purchased entrance to the franchise in 1350, at the beginning of Robert's first mayoralty.
It was with great difficulty that the ancient monarchical provostship and, during the last ten years of the eighteenth century, the revolutionary mayoralty, had succeeded in perforating the five leagues of sewer which existed previous to 1806. Les Miserables
Alderman Constantine, a High Churchman, indignant at being passed over by a junior in the contest for the mayoralty, brought the matter before the Council Board, and produced an old by-law by which aldermen, according to their ancientry, were required to keep their mayoralty. The Journal to Stella
Dorian is hardly a family values candidate and has chosen as her main issue gay marriage --- hardly an issue in a mayoral race. Gay Marriage: No Dissent Allowed
But Bossman, who also speaks English, tells international media his victory in mayoral elections shows that Slovenia is now mature enough to elect a nonwhite political representative. Eastern Europe's First Black Mayor Tells Supporters Not to View Him as Next 'Obama'
The Taipei mayoralty has always been a springboard for higher political office.
That might be optimistic: insiders predict a far lower turnout for the mayoral election. Times, Sunday Times
But then he tried to fix the London mayoral election.
You know you're not only getting old - but also responsible when you're not only concerned about the mayoral election, but one of the two HUGE issues on the docket is the Trash Pickup system - and the major chaos the last administration has made of it. Whew...
He battled for the full reform program: to make everything, even the mayoralty, an appointive rather than an elective office.
Palin didn't start the suburbanization of Wasilla, but she urged it along during her two-term mayoral administration, from 1996 to 2002. For Many Alaskans, Wasilla
His deeper political reason for calling lay in his design to become a candidate for the mayoralty position in Oakland, California.
But perhaps the most revealing detail is that Johnson agreed to the film despite complaining that the same director, John Downer, had previously "tricked" her into appearing in a drama-doc critical of her mayoral brother: The Guardian World News
Consequently the mayoral incumbent must perform a delicate juggling act to maintain constituent support.
That's a stark economic and political departure from the county's last two-term mayoral counterpart, SplicedFeed
Democratic Sen. Bill Perkins of Manhattan says the committee will be a check on what he called mayoral dictatorship of the schools. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
I have every confidence in his ability to more than adequately deputise for the mayor if and when the occasion demands, and to prepare himself for the top mayoral honour which he seems destined to garner twelve months from now.
But down the homestretch, he contained his trademark "snarkiness" by "minimizing the chances for a nasty mayoral moment" with shorter press conferences. Jerry Weissman: Campaign Coaching II
Political attacks on the incumbent at this time of crisis could have severe political repercussions on the mayoral hopefuls.
Mayoral promotion was the only fast route through the ranks of the jurats, which was basically a society of equals of varying degrees of experience.
Mr. Liu, the first Asian-American to hold citywide office and a potential 2013 mayoral candidate, addressed the burgeoning scandal at the close of an early-morning speech at New York Law School in Lower Manhattan. Liu Promises to Account for Finances
In contrast, a mayoral or gubernatorial election involves specific candidates, so it imposes stability.
With the forthcoming London mayoral elections in June, the three main candidates have thrown their hats into the ring.
Gaumontville takes place in a fictional municipality on the day of a mayoral election.
Today, it was the mayoral candidates' turn to stage demonstrations around the cenotaph.
The choice sets up a rerun of the 2008 mayoral race, pitting veteran left-winger Livingstone against Conservative incumbent Boris Johnson. World Watch
In the recent mayoral election in London, there was a small turnout of voters.
This year's mayoral appeal will be raising money for the town's Brownies and Guides.
Vouchers, charter schools, mayoral control, the power to "abolish" individual teaching positions and chancellor-controlled teacher evaluations - all of these have been part of the school landscape in Washington for years. Randi Weingarten: Rhee is wrong
There is a discreet knock on the door of the mayoral chamber.
Last week, the wheels threatened to come off his mayoral carriage.
The group recently spent significant resources opposing a mayoral proposal to inspect apartments upon turnover.
The attack happened around 2: 30 a.m. when an unidentified gunman raided the house of a mayoral candidate in Zamboanga del Sur province, said spokeswoman Steffani Cacho. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: Monday, May 10, 2010
There is also a nod to the mayoral experiment in big cities: Labour now believes it has worked in London and would like it to be extended to other centres.
Under the amendment, the 309 mayoralties of townships and county municipalities would become appointed positions and part of the bureaucracy under county and provincial municipal governments.
The mayoral election is regarded as the litmus test for the integrity of the electoral process.
All candidates in Chicago's mayoral race have one thing in common: Like millions of afflicted Chicago residents, they're all breathing the same cankered air from ... Jeff Biggers: Rahm, Carol, Tom, Luis and Rev. Meeks: Chicago's Next Green Mayor Will Join Sunday's Clean Air Race
The catastrophe and the governments denial that a state-owned gas plant was the source of the leak became major political issues in the mayoral and gubernatorial elections.

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