Sentence examples for council floor from inspiring English sources

At times angry with each other, at times calling each other by their first names, the two men--City Council colleagues for years--often sounded as if they were back on the council floor arguing over a zoning case.

Mr. Burke's personal interests and public duties frequently clash on the council floor.

"The speaker exerted power over the council's committees". The legislation stalled on the council floor.

In addition, it was recommended that a statement of censure be read from the Council floor.

Although some observers described Mr. O'Connor as former Mayor Richard M. Daley's unofficial council floor leader, Mr. Daley's own aides normally dictated his wishes directly to pliant aldermen.

From the moment she walked off the Council floor that day, Ms. Quinn said, she recognized that the outcome would take a toll.

The drive, sponsored by the American Red Cross, will be held in the Fourth Floor Council Rooms at the hospital, 1812 Verdugo Blvd., Glendale.

Their moods shifting from intense to despondent, residents of the Central Valley city packed the upstairs council chambers, ground floor and outside stairs as members debated the last-ditch effort to avoid becoming California's largest city to file bankruptcy.

Helen Smith, a 41-year-old single mother who works as a chef, has lived in her two-bedroom, first-floor council flat for the past three years.

Over the next few months, she missed payment after payment on the two-bed, top-floor council flat in Stratford, east London.

Carver is a tetraplegic as a result of a degenerative neurological disease – he is unable to move any of his limbs other than his lower left arm – but for the last five years, he has been living in a second-floor council attic flat with no lift access.