Sentence examples for council controlled from inspiring English sources

Start in Thurrock: there is nothing leftist about this council, controlled by minority Conservatives propped up by Ukip.

The local city council, controlled by the PDS party of former communists, had organised a hearing about plans to erect commemorative information plaques around the prison compound.

The reformist movement urged Iranians to boycott the election after more than 2,000 of their candidates, including 87 deputies in the 290-seat body, were disqualified from running by a watchdog council controlled by the hard-liners.

The injunction came as the Senate's ethics council — controlled by supporters of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, an ally of Mr. Sarney — considered 11 allegations against Mr. Sarney for possible impeachment.

If I take my own district council, controlled by the Conservatives in West Oxfordshire, it makes its decisions but actually we've been building in West Oxfordshire more houses than was actually set out under our plans.

Mrs. Auroi and other opponents collected 15,000 signatures against the project, but the regional council, controlled by Mr. Giscard d'Estaing's conservative majority, has commissioned polls that showed that 72 to 86percentt of voters approve.

The council controls elections.

Among the Rosebud Sioux, for example, Federal spend ing in the last five years has almost doubled, to $4‐million annually, with the tribal council controlling about 40percentnt.

The county council controls the most expensive services like education, public transport, policing and fire services.

The mayor, not the council, controls the departments.

The mayor, not the council, controls planning, zoning, park maintenance, street sweeping, pothole repair and all the other basic services that keep the city going.