Sentence examples for council equivalent from inspiring English sources

"We're close to having the total pledge amount," said Steven Skulnik, the immediate past chairman of the school council, equivalent to the board of trustees.

Notably, the Commission for the Investigation of Health Hazards of Chemical Compounds in the Work Area of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG (German research council) provides equivalent values (EKA correlation) for carcinogenic substances.

"Thatcher was quite consistent in her view that all sections of public expenditure should take their share of the burden of cutting public expenditure to meet the recession, and so she cut funding for the research councils, the equivalent of the NSF and the NIH," said John Durant, a science historian and director of the MIT Museum.

The equivalent council area of Perth and Kinross voted no by 60.2% to 39.8%.

The world's largest retailer told its suppliers in June that it would no longer buy Alaskan salmon sourced from fisheries that were not certified by the stewardship council or an equivalent group.

The average local council wastes the equivalent of 15 employees' time matching different address lists, reckons Mr Thornton.In this section The price of powder It's hot in the Highlands Bad chemistry Chalk and talk Deficit today, tax rise tomorrow Bonds and buses Where is everybody?

Some at LEP said they would plead with the council, in the equivalent of a court challenge, to permit what might amount to a physics recount, allowing the accelerator to run another year to bolster the thin statistical evidence so far -- just four especially striking counts that might be Higgs detections.

The Livingstone record shows that he no more believes that homosexuality is a form of contamination than he thinks Boris is Adolf Hitler or that the housing policy record of Boris's chief of staff Sir Edward Lister when he led Wandsworth council is morally equivalent to Ratko Mladic's activities in Bosnia.

The community council said road equivalent tariff (RET) had led to an increase in traffic to Kilchoan's ferry to Tobermory on Mull.

Councils, with their equivalent releases, do the same.

The HSE has 1,100 on-site inspectors for 740,000 workplaces; councils have the equivalent of 1,200 full-timers (many in fact part-time, their main job being trading or food standards) for 1.2m workplaces.