Sentence examples for councils cannot be from inspiring English sources

By devolving power gradually, city by city, the government has overcome the objections of civil servants that local councils cannot be trusted with freedom.

While the impact of the first phase of the programme might have been overstated, the importance of the funding to cash-strapped local councils cannot be.

Tony Newman, Croydon's opposition leader and Labour housing spokesman for the Local Government Association (LGA), says RTB has created a raft of uncertainty that means councils cannot be sure how many homes will be available for them to let, or precisely what will happen to receipts.

But councils cannot be allowed to frustrate continually the efforts of others councils to get homes built.

Unlike the politicians, Mr. Trichet and his colleagues on the governing council cannot be voted out of office.

There's even a 1970s "Bronx Is Burning" jigsaw puzzle that the Bronx Tourism Council cannot be happy about.

But Ibrahim Kharishi, self-styled chief clerk of parliament and a Fatah man, says the council cannot be reconvened for months, and only then if Hamas behaves itself in the run-up.

Members of the council cannot be members of the National Assembly or the Senate, but they have access to both chambers; they may speak there, though they do not vote.

Worse, these campaigners' message - that science administration is broken and that a research council cannot be trusted to spend its money wisely - could actually be harmful to the wider interests of British science.

Now that Europe is Christian a general Council cannot be convened or its decisions enforced except by the Christian lay ruler (pp. 287 98/376 90).

Secondly, however, this particular council cannot be labeled anything other than «Great» precisely because every church had agreed on the date, had decided on the venue, and had committed to attend.