Sentence examples for merge voluntarily from inspiring English sources

Ministers need cross-party support at the assembly to force through changes, but are also encouraging councils to merge voluntarily.

Leighton Andrews said that if councils do not come up with proposals to merge voluntarily, mergers will be imposed.

So he wants everyone to at least agree a map for local government with the hope that some councils will merge voluntarily.

Once that is done, he says he hopes to encourage councils to merge voluntarily because it will be in their interests to do so and they will then know that the map is not going to change.

A deal between Labour and Plaid at the assembly could be the way this is forced through, if council leaders ignore the requests from Carwyn Jones to merge voluntarily.

Ceredigion councillors have rejected any moves to voluntarily merge with the neighbouring Pembrokeshire authority.

Mr Andrews has said voluntarily merged councils could be up and running from 2018.

A south Wales council has agreed to explore the option of voluntarily merging with a neighbouring authority.

Ofcom admits that without new powers a shared network across the entire country is improbable, although some companies are already taking voluntarily steps to merge networks.

The topics include whether Ellison will ever voluntarily retire as Oracle's chief executive; what Ellison has in common with Steve Jobs and Genghis Khan; and whether Oracle and Sun Microsystems might eventually merge.

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