Sentence examples for council alone from inspiring English sources

Today, when a premium is placed on public reputation, local council communications departments take a large slice of budgets and employ some 3,500 staff (76 at Manchester City Council alone).

A record 349 candidates are running for city offices, including 296 for the Council alone.

Sheffield council alone believes it could reduce its housing benefit deal by £300,000 a year through this reform.

Councils in Britain spend £150m each year cleaning gum from the streets, with Westminster council alone spending £90,000 a year.

The bill has indeed been huge: Birmingham council alone faces total costs of £1.2bn to settle its case with female staff.

Islington council alone has 150 council estates of 50 homes or more comprising 40% of the borough's total housing on some of the most expensive land in the world.

"However, there is no silver bullet, and councils alone cannot tackle rising homelessness.

Given the immense cultural importance of libraries, it is unfair to place their fate in the hands of councils alone.

Sarah Pickup: "This is not something that can be tackled by individual councils alone as resources to local government are slashed and demand rises – it needs a new national approach and understanding.

Why would any local council, let alone a Labour one, choose to side with this?

But the city still does not have a functioning council, let alone the hotels or roads to cope with the millions of tourists expected to arrive next year.