Sentence examples for council power from inspiring English sources

The French had sought to give the Council power to rescind the mandate later.

Only Russia, a permanent Council power, and Syria, the only Arab nation, refrained from echoing the inspectors' negative account.

An eventual détente between Mayor-elect Rahm Emanuel and the council power, Edward Burke, the veteran chairman of the council's Finance Committee, was announced formally on Tuesday.

Nobody else will tell you when Main Street is closed for repairs; why the library has been losing books; how the balance of parish council power works out.

Mr Kennedy believes that the Tory party will be unable, with any credibility, to follow the Liberal Democrats down the road of decentralisation, given the previous Tory government's record of reining back local council power.

He was described as "head and the chief of the Chippewa Nation" and a man respected "for his rare integrity, wisdom in council, power as an orator, and magnanimity as a warrior".

A women's rights activist from Saudi Arabia, Manal al-Sharif, who has started a campaign for women's driving rights, wrote on Twitter: "The amendments ignored Saudis' demands of electing the members and increasing the council powers!

The council also had an "excessive deference" to South Yorkshire Police, preventing the use of council powers to tackle perpetrators, and a lack of scrutiny over the police's actions.

Giving local councils power over business rates is welcome in principle but the important questions are those of fairness between richer and poorer areas.

He committed to giving councils powers to purchase land from developers if it is unused.

Councils' powers were drastically curbed in the 1980s; many schools are now being removed from their purview, too.