Sentence examples for left council from inspiring English sources

Both controversies have left council leaders rattled.

But before long, Hodge had gone into local politics, getting elected to what was then considered a "loony left" council in Islington that raised the red flag and had a bust of Lenin in the town hall.

Donaldson said that nearly 250 libraries are currently either under threat of closure or else have been closed or left council control since April this year, while 2,159 library staff posts, out of a total of 20,924, are set to be cut.

The onslaught in Homs left Council members baffled and angry.

And it was passed by the left's great hate-figure, Margaret Thatcher, and was aimed at the excesses of "loony left" councils, which handed out money to gay and lesbian groups.

Years of shrinking social housing have left councils short of experience and staff.

Community architecture was one of the main enthusiasms of the "loony left" councils.

There was Thatcher's animus against Labour town halls, and then the more justified animus against "loony left councils".

That came in the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher's Tory government applied a fiscal arm-lock to restrain loony left councils, capping the taxes they were allowed to charge.

Last year's round of government spending cuts left councils struggling not only to balance their budgets, but also to work out ways of providing services for less.

The difficulties were once ideological, and the "loony left" councils of the eighties have entered folklore all over the U.K. Now, however, the problems tend to be more practical.