Sentence examples for authorities covering from inspiring English sources

Take the local authorities covering the constituencies of the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition.

The figures were based on returns from 61 local authorities, covering 4,673 of the 16,784 state-funded primary schools.

The new combined authorities covering areas around Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool and Newcastle are keen to sell bonds on the money markets.

Only a handful of black and minority ethnic (BME) people feature in key positions, even in local authorities covering areas with a large BME population.

These observations are very similar to the conclusions reached by St Mungo's, which is now calling for co-ordinated help to be provided in all local authorities, covering health, social services, schools, housing and other relevant areas.

This week George Osborne supported moves to give Greater Manchester its first mayor and said he hoped the other newly formed combined authorities covering Merseyside, Tyneside, Leeds/Bradford and South Yorkshire would follow suit.

For 10 months, he was responsible for the health authority covering Mid Staffs.

Congestion charging is most likely to work when it is backed by a big local authority, covering all or most of a travel-to-work area, with power over both roads and public transport.

Under this measure, the requirement for a proportion of homes to be social units is waived in exchange for a monetary contribution to the local authority covering the area where the development is being built.

What the CBI is suggesting would see, for example, one authority covering Anglesey to Wrexham.

Critics argue the councils should, instead, join the combined authority covering the rest of the North East set up in April.