Sentence examples for councils common from inspiring English sources

Such councils, common in Germany, include blue-collar and white-collar employees and work with management to increase productivity and administer factory rules.

The vulnerability of school music services at a time of cuts has been a recurring issue for northern councils, in common with others all over the UK.

Such caste-based councils are common in the inner regions of several Indian states, including Haryana, Punjab, western Uttar Pradesh, and parts of Rajasthan, and have been operating with government approval for years.

To the north, electricity comes from Bristol Virginia Utilities, which answers to the city council, a common arrangement in rural America.

An inscription from one of those colonies, the colonia Genetiva Iulia at Urso (Osuna), which contains material from the time of its foundation under Julius Caesar, shows a community of Roman citizens with their own magistrates and religious officials, a town council, and common land assigned to the town.

That is why we will continue to talk with the Commission and the Council about common measures that enhance transparency in all three institutions as part of achieving a tripartite deal and why we have called for a meeting with the Austrian Presidency and the Commission at the earliest opportunity.

Common sense would have dictated that but the thing one learns about councils is that common sense isn't all that common.

Defra also said that it was abolishing the royal commission on environmental pollution (RCEP), the agricultural wages board, 15 agricultural wages committees, 16 agricultural dwelling house advisory committees and the committee on agricultural valuation, the inland waterways advisory council and Commons commissioners.

What these councils have in common is that they are now held by the Lib Dems.

They should be removed from their present owners and managers, and be vested in neighbourhood parish and town councils, as is common on the continent.

The meeting was described by Carlisle City Council leader Colin Glover as an opportunity to meet other councils to discuss "common themes such as enterprise, tourism and transport".