Sentence examples for closed council from inspiring English sources

Mr. DiFrancesco did not recall meeting with Mr. Johnston but said he did rebut the report's allegations sometime in 1998 at a closed Council meeting.

We decided to participate by opening up a closed council house on the Carpenters Estate, a large public housing estate next to the Olympic Park.

But he believes a professional licence could still be a useful qualification even if it was not a requirement for all managers.As for punishing unprofessional behaviour, Mr Khurana is inspired by the internet rather than by a closed council of grandees.

John Sawers, the British ambassador, emerged from a closed Council meeting to say that what he had heard inside from Vojislav Kostunica, the Serbian prime minister, and Fatmir Sejdiu, the president of Kosovo, "underlined just how enormous the gulf is between the two parties".

On May 19, in a closed Council session lasting more than three hours, the township's four special lawyers -- Mr. Markowitz, Mr. Hansen, Mr. Jacobson and another bankruptcy lawyer, Nancy Isaacson -- implored Council members to demand Mr. DiFrancesco's resignation or, if need be, "take further steps," according to Mr. Atkins's minutes.

In closed Council sessions since Monday on the American and British draft, at least seven nonpermanent members indicated that they could support it, the diplomats said, giving the United States new confidence that the measure has the nine votes needed to pass.

But the shutdown became a foul political problem in and of itself: the closed legislative council symbolised a government unable to function.

According to the website Public Libraries News, on which librarian Ian Anstice tracks changes to the UK's library service, in the year to this March, 491 libraries (411 buildings and 80 mobiles) have been reported as either likely to be closed or passed to volunteers – or have either closed or left council control.

After several hours of intense negotiations behind closed doors, the Council held a brief public meeting to adopt the compromise text.

After several hours of intense negotiations behind closed doors, the Council held a brief public meeting to adopt the compromise text and to renew the mandates of two peacekeeping missions that had been held hostage by the dispute.

Relying on a section of the state's Sunshine Law that allows government bodies to consider financial matters behind closed doors, the council heard proposals by five developers in private, ultimately choosing the design of Nassau HKT Associates, whose principal, Robert Powell, is a former borough councilman.