Sentence examples for friends council from inspiring English sources

Using hydroponic and high intensity lighting equipment, a number of elderly women – capitalising on the fact that police are unlikely to suspect them of any criminal activity – have set up grow-ops in their homes and the spare rooms in their friends' council houses, and claiming a large share of the local cannabis market in the process.

No one expected David Cameron and George Osborne to be any kind of friends to council housing, but their record still beggars belief.

"You won't be able to get an egg and chips round here soon," complained a friend, a council worker whose children have grown up with mine.

Even our closest friends on the council abstained.

The standoff between the Friends, traders and council bosses is a familiar one.

I've heard some nightmare stories from friends with ex-council flats who've had massive bills for repairs".

The boss of Mears Scotland, Willie Docherty, is a personal friend of the council leader Jim McCabe, one of Scotland's longest-serving Labour councillors.

Irene McHenry, the executive director of the Friends Council on Education, a national organization of schools, said Friends Seminary met the council's criteria for being a Quaker school, which include worship; instruction or "testimonies" in Quaker values; and community service.

What is more, many of those council members' friends and neighbors are clamoring to be on the councils, too.

The Friends have accused the council of 'hijacking' the market and 'turning it into an exclusive "foodie destination" for the wealthy'.

My friends on the city council are reluctant to criticise other authorities and accept that Glasgow, the biggest local authority in Scotland, would always be expected to take the lion's share.