Sentence examples for control the county from inspiring English sources

The Democrats who control the County Legislature are considering an increase that would average $78 to $100.

The Democrats who control the County Legislature oppose it, but failed last week to muster enough votes to defeat it.

A federal racketeering lawsuit asserts that commissioners in Luzerne County, Pa., allowed campaign contributors to control the county pension fund.

But the Democrats who control the County Legislature said this week that as part of their four-year rescue plan, they would seek a 16.3percentt increase next year in the county portion of property tax bills.

His fellow Republican, County Executive Thomas S. Gulotta, who has the power to veto any tax increase, said yesterday that the 16.3percentt figure proposed by the Democrats who control the County Legislature was too high.

But all three factions of Nassau's bitterly divided government -- the Democrats who control the County Legislature, the Republican minority and the Republican county executive, Thomas S. Gulotta -- were soon at loggerheads again.

The Democratic Party already controls the County Board of Legislators and has mayors in New Rochelle and Mount Vernon.

Responding to the allegation that there was a Republican cabal controlling the county's Empire Zone, Mr. Minarik laughed.

Mr. Suozzi's election was the final humiliation for the Nassau County Republican Party, a legendary political machine that controlled the county for the better part of the last century.

County Republican officials, whose party controls the County Legislature and the Empire Zone board, scoffed at the idea they would or could trade tax incentives for contributions.

County election supervisors usually operate without partisanship and often serve for long periods, regardless of which party controls the county government.