Sentence examples for major council from inspiring English sources
On Sunday, he sent out in a mass e-mail what he said was the security plan for the major council, or loya jirga, set to begin in Kabul on Wednesday.
Looking up and down the Stradone, I mentally congratulated the successors to the Major Council: no plastic disfiguring of shop façades is allowed and only café table sunshades - Coca-Cola and Marlboro - marred the Adriatic's most famous thoroughfare.
Another major council has said it is planning to leave Cosla, the body that represents Scottish local authorities.
Newcastle's plans follow a decision by Somerset County Council to withdraw its entire arts budget in 2010 and major council cuts to arts organisations in Derby and Darlington.
Ten years ago, Whalley Range was the subject of a major council regeneration project.
You would be forgiven for not having noticed, but government departments and most major councils are now littered with "design champions".
The political leaders of all the major councils involved in what the chancellor, George Osborne, has dubbed "the northern powerhouse" are men, save for Dore in Sheffield and Blake in Leeds.
"I don't believe that getting 28% as a proportion of the national vote in last June's local elections; that running the major councils of the north; that having the largest political party in 70 years; that getting 6 million votes in the last election – more than any other Liberal party in Europe; being first on constitutional reform; the Gurkhas; Trident.
Mr. Kouchner mentioned the scarcity of money and other resources, but did not make that his major theme, council members said.
Brewing since late last year has been the unpleasant prospect of a major Labour council – Newcastle – cutting its arts budget by 100%, halving its grants to its museums, and reducing its library service by 60%.
The Tories took an extra 263 seats and power in 12 more authorities, including Trafford, the first major metropolitan council to declare, as well as Tamworth, Harrogate and Eastbourne.
