Sentence examples for influential council from inspiring English sources
The industry, helped by influential council members, successfully pushed back, taking advantage of the Council's oversight of the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission.
Jens Weidmann, president of the German Bundesbank and an influential council member, has been particularly vocal.
The report, a follow-up to an influential council study published two years ago, essentially summarizes the publicly known developments in terrorism financing since then.
The heads of two of Edinburgh's most influential council departments have spoken out against the idea of using a Waterfront funding pot to kick start the tram project.
Few Afghan leaders and analysts had expected Karzai to dig in so strongly over the accord, especially after an influential council of tribal leaders and civic activists urged him this week to sign it.
"The political opposition to further measures at the European Union level will wane as soon as it becomes obvious that Germany is going to be affected by what's happening outside it," said Lars Feld, a member of an influential council of economists that advises the German government.
"The profile of the government has been blurred by unending discussions," said Kurt Lauk, a leading Christian Democrat and chairman of the party's influential economics council.
And the highly influential clerical council that supported the Shiite alliance in January's elections has said it will stay on the sideline this time.
Mohsen Rezai currently holds the post of secretary of the influential expediency council headed by Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, with whom he seems to have a good working relationship.
There have been moves in this direction recently with women allowed onto the influential Shura council for the first time, as well as having the right to vote in the next municipal elections.
Her father, who is head of the governing party, will remain at the helm of the influential security council and will hold the formal title Leader of the Nation.
