Sentence examples for close counsel from inspiring English sources

"Mick has been my close counsel and adviser.

For now, Ms. Bailey is keeping close counsel as to how she will handle these challenges.

Asked Friday for detail, Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser, said, "The governor keeps very close counsel," adding he had "no guidance on that".

Mr. Pandit keeps close counsel with a handful of trusted lieutenants that many say is the real power base within Citigroup.

He has kept close counsel about his future, Republican officials said on Sunday, and even several of his advisers did not know whether he would try to rebuild his frayed coalition and fight for the chance to lead the party into the 2012 election cycle.

While polls suggest that Netanyahu might find it easier to assemble more mandates for a right-wing coalition, this election – called in early December – has a number of new variables including the emergence of a new centre-right party, Kulanu, whose leader Moshe Kahlon, a former Likud minister, has kept a close counsel over whom he might back for prime minister.

The finding by Gartner, the market research firm that serves as the high-technology industry's closest counsel, signals that high-tech's green hype machine is about to find another gear.

Against the advice of her closest counsel, Daenerys eventually offers the wicked man one of her children (a fire-breathing dragon!), in exchange for full control of the Unsullied.

In his closing remarks counsel to the inquiry, Tom Kark QC, highlighted the lack of clinical engagement both within the hospital and the wider NHS as a key source of the problems at Mid Staffordshire.

Several of his closest aides counseled him in recent days to follow the example of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher when she ran into difficulties and experienced cabinet resignations.

John Franco, the Mets' 40-year-old setup man and former closer, has counseled Benitez on how to handle this different kind of Mets season.