Sentence examples for class of council from inspiring English sources

"We have to ask ourselves if it's fair to pass a one-time extension that will serve one class of council members and the incumbent mayor.

I've never been much of a protester: my greengrocer father imbued me with the residual working-class fatalism of council estates and the poorer suburbs.

There are many ways of getting involved such as: Freshman Class Council, Senior Class Council, appointments to General Assembly, and employment.

Interviewer: "What was the decision of class council?" Ali: "Well, they just review your (school) selections and they give a report of the final decision.

The brothers went to South Shore High School: Michael, class of 1979, was executive council chairman, and Gerard was president of the class of 1981.

But the very fact it was considered at all reflects a widespread view among the political class that the death and defeat of council housing is a triumph to be celebrated.

As for what we used to call the working class, the council flats of my youth have gone.

The middle classes have moved into its neat terraced houses; rising numbers of council houses have been sold to their tenants.

The origin of council housing lies in the Housing of the Working Classes Act of 1890: three years later, the first council estate – Boundary Street, on the border of Shoreditch and Bethnal Green – was built in east London.

It is part of a wave of state-led gentrification of council estates that has brought accusations of "social cleansing" of the working class from central London.

Some of the government's critics claimed the council tax freeze increasingly amounts to a "middle class benefit" as it helps better off people who might pay more in council tax but make relatively little use of council services - while, critics argue, those who rely most on the services are saving relatively small amounts but being affected by the cuts.