Sentence examples for council calling from inspiring English sources

On February 24th she released her draft report to the council, calling for an independent international inquiry, following an effort by experts sent in 2011 by the UN secretary-general.

The number of letters to Kensington and Chelsea council calling for the carnival in west London to be scrapped is understood to be roughly the same number as every year.

He and his associates campaigned fiercely for votes on the union's executive council, calling in chits and suggesting that Mr. Woodcock's supporters might be divisive if he was not elected.

The United States, Turkey and Qatar were among members of the Geneva-based council calling for a special session on Syria in an attempt to increase international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad as intense discussions continued between members of the Security Council in New York on how to salvage the cease-fire plan negotiated by Kofi Annan, the United Nations special envoy.

Subsequent non-binding parliamentary votes in Britain, France and Spain – the first two being permanent members of the UN security council – calling on their governments to follow Sweden have not meant instant diplomatic change, but the decisions are symbolic and are thought likely to influence policy eventually.

What is needed now is a vote in parliament to withdraw the troops on a fixed date - perhaps the end of this year - and for Britain to sponsor a resolution at the security council calling on the Americans to do the same, and for a genuinely independent UN intervention to help with the elections and with the task of reconstruction after all coalition forces have gone.

The Lisbon European Council called on the Council and the Parliament to adopt - as rapidly as possible - still this year - the dual-use export control regime.

The council called this fund "substantially inadequate".

A member of the town council called him "incorrigible".

The council called the removal a "genuine mistake".

Opel's works council called for warning strikes on Thursday.