Sentence examples for high councils from inspiring English sources

In the high councils of the Police Department, there has been talk lately of "seizing and holding" areas of the city that have seemingly fallen under the control of gun-toting drug dealers.

The president presides over the Council of Ministers and other high councils, signs the more important decrees, appoints high civil servants and judges, negotiates and ratifies treaties, and is commander in chief of the armed forces.

Savvy Washington observers predict that the cost-free changes--swiftly ending the ban on federal funding of research with post-2001 embryonic stem cells and restoring mainstream science to a place of influence in the high councils of the government--will very likely happen as soon as the new Administration takes over.

For example, referendums that allow residents to veto high council tax rises.

Perhaps in part two, Po will reunite with the Centipede high council of Tinky Winky, Dipsy and Laa-Laa.

Traore, 70, said the country would be led by a high council consisting of himself and two vice-presidents.

Every other Sunday, he convened his high council — akin to a president's cabinet — to discuss operational matters.

But the battle began not in some Washington war room, but in a courtyard in Jalalabad where a group of elders gathered last weekend for a traditional high council.

The "invitations" include: Referendums on any local issue if 5% of the population sign up, and a veto for voters over any proposed high council tax increases.

"FGM is a violation against the humanity of a woman," said Pakhshan Zangana, secretary general of the high council of women's affairs in Kurdistan.

At the beginning of August, the military high council will meet, as it does every year, to consider who gets promoted, retired or pushed aside.