Sentence examples for council function from inspiring English sources

Unlike most MySociety efforts, it operates in direct competition to a central government service, the Connect to your Council function on the Directgov website.

Like the N.E.A., the council functions as a grant-making organization.

She would ask to go to various council functions and charity events and I was glad to take her, and let her meet people.

Some council functions don't ever change.

The king is still an absolute ruler, however, and the councils function largely in modest advisory roles at the local level.

He also sacked Gen. Salan from his high-council functions.

Some education action zones may experiment with transferring councils' functions to private contractors.

In fact, however, it has never been the way in which councils functioned throughout history, especially during the first millennium.

The report only deals with certain aspects of the council's function.

He says that our policy "denotes 70% of the council's functions – first supposed 'back office' services, and then such core functions as environmental health, planning, transport, even crematoriums – being handed to the private sector".

After 1685 the intendant, a French administrative official, gradually took over many of the council's functions.