There are also clans and lodges and tribes and other groups, which may or may not be associated to form a "Thing" - the Epping Thing, the Poplar Thing, and so on - holding their own meetings and camps throughout the year and coming in as large numbers as possible to the yearly Althingamote, when all gather round the council fire and speak their mind and form and re-form the Kibbo Kift movement.
In 1777, the Six Nations gave up on their vast system of multicultural diplomacy and, as Jennings puts it, "the great League council fire at Onondaga was 'covered.' "Two years later an American "patriot" force laid waste to the neat New York farming villages of the Iroquois, burning their crops to the ground; in 1783 many of them moved to a territory the British offered them in Canada.
The following day Egypt's ruling military council fired Mr. Shafiq, and many credit Mr. Aswany with the achievement.
The executive of the local Boy Scout council fired off an official defense and began a new fund-raising campaign.
She believes that people have a right to learn about a viewpoint that she herself thinks "preposterous"; and so the neighbors ostracize her, the town council fires her, and an overwrought child burns down the library.
The Passamaquoddy tribal council fired Gellers and asked Tureen to take over.
Von Armansperg immediately dissolved the city council, fired Mayor Petrakis and had Makriyannis placed under house arrest.
The Lakota/Sioux people are divided up into seven bands or council fires, and each share the same beliefs about the life giving force of water (Mni).
It further established the Welsh Language Board "to promote and facilitate the use of the Welsh language" and set minimum standards for the use of Welsh by public bodies including councils; police, fire, and health authorities; and schools.
The high-rise environment is much like a small town with neighbors, townspeople, shop owners, mayors and councils, police, fire, and engineers all squeezed vertically into 50+ stories.
