Sentence examples for mayoral system from inspiring English sources

"Some influential councillors place their antagonism towards the mayor and mayoral system, and the achievements of their political objectives, above the needs of the people of Doncaster," said the Audit Commission.

Doncaster, an early adopter of the directly-elected mayoral system, pays its mayor Peter Davies £30,000.

But under the mayoral system, the public choose a mayor, who holds executive power with a hand-picked cabinet of like-minded councillors.

We can make the switch to a mayoral system work best by choosing a Mayor who can speak for Liverpool with a new and independent voice.

Although he said he preferred an even stronger mayoral system, Mr. Luken added that the new mayor would have more power to hire and fire and offer timelier agendas for addressing problems.

Opponents said mayoral corruption scandals in neighboring Bridgeport and Waterbury show what can happen with a powerful mayoral system, and though changes were needed, putting in a strong mayor format would be going to far.

Would one way of getting to where you want be providing still more cities and even large towns with the chance to adopt mayoral systems?

Thanks to the mayoral voting system, in which voters can put a cross beside both a first and a second choice, this is an election in which opponents of Mr Johnson can safely choose between Mr Livingstone and one of these other candidates for their first choice.

It may have taken Nasdaq (possibly borrowing the London mayoral computer systems) a couple of hours to work out how much Facebook shares cost.

He asked again for things the Legislature had rejected, like an initiative and referendum system, mayoral control of big-city schools, campaign finance reform, easing of the Rockefeller-era drug laws, and anti-terror laws.

In 1994, Mr. Guiliani, by then the mayor, asked Mr. Costikyan to draft a plan to eliminate the city's central Board of Education and place the school system under mayoral control — a reorganization realized under Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.