Sentence examples for council functions from inspiring English sources

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

Indeed, many political officials say the entire way the Council functions is up for grabs.

In June, the New York City Council announced it would stop making single-serving bottled water available at Council functions.

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

Then Peter F. Vallone, the Council speaker, tried to do away with one of its vestigial Council functions, the authority to preside over meetings and to introduce legislation.

Another factor in weighing how well the Council functions next year is the likelihood that not all the newcomers will be strangers to New York politics or to the government's inner workings.

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

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

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

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

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