Sentence examples for council signed a from inspiring English sources

Before it was abolished last year in the local-government reorganisation, Cleveland County Council signed a 25-year deal with a rubbish-burning power station.

In Sheffield, the council signed a 25-year PFI contract with Amey in 2012 to manage and improve its roads, including greenery.

Other evidence of this rehabilitation came in June, when Lincolnshire county council signed a £71m contract for Serco to provide back office services.

This month the council signed a deal with BioRegional Quintain, a development firm, to spend £200m on building 500 houses, shops, offices, restaurants and leisure facilities on disused docks near the football stadium.

For Milton Keynes residents, this vision of motoring utopia could soon become reality, after the council signed a contract with BT to install a public network for "the internet of things" – the idea of linking smartphones to household hardware such as washing machines and heating, and now car park spaces.

In March, Conwy council signed a deal to buy the pier from the Crown Estate.

The leaders of Southampton and Portsmouth councils signed a deal that may lead to shared services if it is in the "joint interests" of residents.

From 2006, the Labour government began to seek other partners, especially among more moderate Pakistani Sufi groups who had felt frozen out.Then, in 2009, a senior member of the council signed (in a personal capacity) a declaration in support of Hamas, the Islamist group that runs Gaza.

In 2012, Chicago's city council signed off on a "vomit cleanup fee" of $50 for its taxicabs, a necessary fee given Chicago's incoherent late-night crowd.

Last month, the Indianapolis city council signed off on a new store in the up-and-coming neighborhood of Broad Ripple.

At the rally, Alejo Vidal-Quadras Roca, a vice president of the European Parliament, delivered a declaration of support to the council signed, he said, by a majority of European legislators.