Sentence examples for council meaning from inspiring English sources

Colau's party won 11 of the 41 seatson the city council, meaning that she will need to form alliances in order to govern.

Even formal homelessness acceptances tell only part of the story: the figures show 112,000 people made a homelessness application to their council, meaning that more than half were deemed ineligible for help.

When it was first released, the David Cronenberg adaptation of JG Ballard's psycho-sexual erotic car crash novel was deemed so depraved that it was banned by Westminster council, meaning the British-Canadian production could not be shown anywhere in London's West End.

Labour has lost its narrow majority at Plymouth City Council meaning no party has overall control.

He also warned that a mansion tax "would mean government snoopers in every home to revalue your house for council tax, meaning council tax rises for anyone who's improved their home in the past 20 years".

In its first municipal election since the shooting of black teenager Michael Brown, the St Louis suburb of Ferguson has elected two new African-American council members, meaning there will now be three black representatives on the six-member city council.

They installed a mayor who is openly gay, as well as two gay council members, meaning that the city's five-member ruling body now has a gay majority.

"For example I know of a children's charity in the North West who were faced with a 10% cut in their council grant, meaning the summer playscheme for the children of homeless families was under threat.

Officials have suggested that they expect the key negotiations to take place at the council level, meaning that they see the most important figures as the president, Donald Tusk, and the leaders of other European countries.

Three pools in the east Midlands city have closed in the last year due to cuts in council funding, meaning the club has had to train outside the city – some nine and 10-year-olds training 40 minutes away in Loughborough late on Friday evenings.

From April 2015 that responsibility will shift to the councils themselves, meaning elected politicians will make planning decisions.