Sentence examples for long council from inspiring English sources

The Empress Dowager has decided against abdication, following an audience of the Cabinet and a long council of the Imperial clan.

The digital revolution, and the dramatic drop in the cost of publishing that went with it, saw the emergence of passionate, dedicated volunteers who – fed up with the decline in local news coverage – chose to suffer long council meetings and dreary briefings in order to scrutinise those representing them.

For too long councils have worked in silos.

Mr Shapps said: "For far too long, councils have been left hamstrung in their efforts to meet the housing needs of their residents by a council house finance system that is outdated and no longer fit for purpose.

Trusts are exempt from the business rates and VAT that councils pay (as long as councils reinvest the savings in services).Just how effective the strategy is remains unclear.

Manchester's long serving council leader, Sir Richard Leese, is often feted for his ability to operate across party lines.

For too long, the council shied away from dealing with the biggest problem: that it spends money on 48,600 secondary-school places, but has only 29,200 pupils.The city is not unique in this last month, Stephen Byers, an education minister, complained that there were 773,000 surplus places in English schools.

Councillor Sonja Crisp said: "This decision allows us to deliver on a long held council priority and is key to us achieving our economic and health ambitions for York.

But as long as councils act reasonably my money, too, will be on them to see off human rights claims.

It can't be long until councils provide residents with interactive infographics at elections too, as the BBC has since 1974.

All this adds up to a huge expense which long-suffering council tax payers could do without (and would largely avoid in a republic).