Sentence examples for Principal authority from inspiring English sources

Principal authority councillors seem to be voting according to the dictum 'build anywhere, but not on my patch', so rather than overcoming nimbyism there is a simple reinforcement.

What will the new council do for them? 4. Submit your petition to your principal authority and wait.

This is the "specific direction" standard introduced this year by the presiding judge, Theodor Meron, an American, and cited as the principal authority in Thursday's decision to acquit.

But a parish does have to fall within one principal authority, so it can't cross district, unitary authority, or London borough lines.

If you win the referendum, and the principal authority decides the parish is to go ahead, a temporary council will be formed.

But in spite of this direct localised effect, it is the (distant) principal authority that receives all of the business rates to disburse as it chooses.

Dionysius used Aquinas, Pseudo-Dionysius, and the Dutch mystic Jan van Ruysbroeck as principal authorities in writing his classic, De contemplatione.

Publius Herennius Dexippus, (born c. 210 died after 270), Roman historian and Athenian statesman, one of the principal authorities for the history of the mid-3rd century ad.

He thus greatly affected the Renaissance conception of the configuration of the Earth and so played an important, if indirect, role in the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus, who cited Strabo among his principal authorities.

C. 210 270 Publius Herennius Dexippus, (born c. 210 died after 270) Roman historian and Athenian statesman, one of the principal authorities for the history of the mid-3rd century ad.

On local government, he complains England has 353 principal authorities, some unitary and some operating as two tiers with district and county councils, a structure, he describes as " baffling and bears no relation to modern economic activity".