Sentence examples for over a council from inspiring English sources

London art schools were once the ultimate social leveller, where an alumnus of Eton had no special advantage over a council estate kid.

Still, Jack Hanley, who presides over a council representing the roughly 4,000 General Services employees who are members of the National Federation of Federal Employees union, said the agency's delay in notifying employees had put them at greater risk.

But Mr. Barron, one of the Council's most incendiary members (he once accused Ms. Quinn of behaving like a "white supremacist" in a dispute over a Council aide's suspension), challenged that reasoning.

But can that person curry favor with and exert inappropriate influence over a council member by giving his brother, sister, son or daughter $30,000 in the form of "lobbying fees"?

Studies have found more than twice as many people can name an elected mayor over a council leader and that voters are twice as likely to feel involved in decision-making.

The same day, Mr. Bloomberg ripped into the Council speaker, Gifford Miller, over a council campaign finance bill, and took a shot at Gerald Schoenfeld, chairman of Shubert Theaters, during a fancy luncheon, over his opposition to the administration's plan to build a stadium on the far West Side of Manhattan.

Last month, for instance, a baby was allegedly abandoned in a park in Blackpool, and in east London a sunbather was run over by a council van; there was a heated debate over whether it was OK to lie in the park in your underwear, and Doncaster residents called for the reintroduction of park wardens after a series of assaults.

In April 2010, a valuable Banksy work in Hosier Lane was painted over by a council cleaning crew.

Anti-austerity squatters who took over a former council office in Peterborough are set to be evicted after the council began legal proceedings against them.

Armed militia members took over a city council building in the city of Donetsk and leaders of the so-called "People's Donetsk Republic" held a news conference.

Armed militia members took over a city council building in the city of Donetsk and leaders of the so-calle "People's Donetsk Republic" held a news conference.