Sentence examples for granting the mayor from inspiring English sources

"Everyone's in favor of granting the mayor control," he said.

The school governance law granting the mayor sweeping powers is about to expire.

Some supporters of Mr. Bloomberg expressed concern that the furor over his educational record could translate into changes to the state law granting the mayor control of city schools, which was first approved in 2002 and comes up for renewal in 2015.

To speed up the building of these homes, the government will also grant the mayor additional powers, in the form of Mayoral Development Orders, to remove planning obstacles.

And grant the mayor his achievements: More and more of the waterfront is garlanded in green.

The Agriculture Department would not say Thursday whether it would, or could, grant the mayor's request.

Without an agreement, Justice Gische said, she lacked the legal authority to grant the mayor's request barring public comment on the case.

The governor has declined to grant the mayor's request for restoration of a commuter tax, for example, and has proposed cutting, rather than increasing, education aid.

Early in his tenure, he persuaded the state government to grant the mayor the power to control the public-school system; formerly, it was controlled by the Board of Education, a majority of whose members were appointed by the five borough presidents.

The law the Council passed last year granted the mayor broad power over selecting members of the Investigation and Audit Board, and was upheld in September by the State Supreme Court in Manhattan.

And Mr. Silver, who earlier this week threatened to introduce a bill that would grant the mayor control of the schools but not give him all the powers he is seeking, said through a spokesman that he was holding off.