Sentence examples for majority councils from inspiring English sources

Scottish councils: The SNP claimed most seats across the 32 authorities, 424, up 57, and won their first majority councils - in Dundee and Angus.

All else equal, the fairly even distribution between right-wing and left-wing majority councils would suggest that the scope of implementation of the LOV be comparatively uniform across the counties.

In 1998, a black majority council chose Mr. Kaine.

A majority Council vote should be required to remove a commissioner, he added.

The mayor, who works for a salary of $150 a month, has two main functions: to break a tie and to oversee the police (he has veto power but can be overruled by a majority council vote).

Lacking an overall majority, council leader Mark Hawthorne needed support from others, and discipline from his own group.

But Gallagher Estates appealed successfully in March to the Planning Inspectorate, part of central government, to have that requirement removed, bypassing the Tory-majority council after officials missed a deadline to address the issue.

Majewski: We have, as of our last election, which was a couple of weeks ago, we elected a Muslim-majority council.

A Department for Education spokesman said: "The vast majority of councils have protected frontline children social care budgets.

All have a Labour majority and councils that have been warning of the impact of austerity for six years.

Surrey was among the great majority of councils that opted to impose the full 2% social care precept in April.