Sentence examples for a powerful city from inspiring English sources

One was Mr. Yaroslavsky, today one of five county supervisors and formerly a powerful city councilman representing parts of the West Side and the San Fernando Valley.

But, as a powerful city leader and a leading candidate for mayor, she and others in city governments should take care not to be seen muscling aside businesses whose owners don't agree with their views.

The history of opera, as @PositivistDinosaur notes, is virtually inseparable from the history of Venice, which was still a powerful city state when Monteverdi was setting out the possibilities of the art form.

The operating officer, which Mr. Bryant likened to a powerful city manager, would control the municipal budget and all personnel assignments and would have the power to sue on behalf of the city.

Five months after pleading guilty to one count of corruption, William L. Paroli Sr., the former chairman of the Dutchess County Republican Party, was sentenced today by a federal judge to 21 months in prison, capping a sometimes bizarre scandal that heralded the end of a powerful city political machine.

And earlier this year, Mayor Willie Brown of San Francisco cut short a trip to China, after a city supervisor Mr. Brown had appointed acting mayor staged a bit of a coup by filling two vacancies on a powerful city board.

By then Venice had become such a powerful city-state and trading power on the western side of the Adriatic that it took control of the Dalmatian coast to protect its traders from pirates and keep open the shipping lanes in the eastern Adriatic.

A powerful city-state built by the Achaeans, it was recolonised in Byzantine and Venetian times and there is much to see: fortifications, decorative arches, rock tombs and the later Church of the Holy Fathers.

In a monograph, Clemens Reichel, a research associate at the Oriental Institute, notes that according to the cuneiform legend, the seal originally belonged to a ruler of Eshnunna, a powerful city-state in Mesopotamia, circa 2010 B.C.

The story eventually grew to fit Sim's expanding ambitions, both in content and technique, with its earth-pig protagonist getting embroiled in politics, becoming prime minister of a powerful city-state, then a Pope who ascends to the moon all within the first third of its projected 300-issue run.

After wrapping up the tenth season of excavations, he believes they've found a "goldmine of ancient monumental structures and artifacts" that suggests the site was a powerful city-state during the Early and Middle Bronze Ages (between 3,500 and 1540 B.C).