Sentence examples for parallel council from inspiring English sources

A cabinet headed by Mr Mugabe is meant to draw up policy, while a parallel council of ministers, headed by Mr Tsvangirai, is meant to implement it.

Mr Mugabe will still chair the cabinet, which is supposed to draw up policy; Mr Tsvangirai will preside over a parallel council of ministers, which is meant to implement it.

Executives at John Lewis say that they make the strategic business decisions, but any changes affecting partners' working conditions have to be approved by this parallel council.

"People were living parallel lives," says council chief executive Peter Sloman.

In the anarchist-controlled areas, Aragón and Catalonia, in addition to the temporary military success, there was a vast social revolution in which the workers and peasants collectivised land and industry and set up councils parallel to the paralyzed Republican government.

Participatory budgeting has been used for years in some Brazilian communities and is now being used in parts of Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, but the only parallel in the United States, council members say, is in Chicago.

The experiences of these women tell us that the entrenchment of sharia councils and parallel legal systems within minority communities creates a space for the perpetuation of patriarchal control and harm to women, children and others perceived to be apostates, atheists and nonconformists.

Claire McColgan, head of culture at the council, draws parallels between the two men.

He called for the creation of a regulatory oversight council to work parallel to the Federal Reserve, stronger capital and liquidity requirements for financial firms, and greater regulation of the type of risky behavior that led to last year's crisis.

Other government initiatives, notably the Big Society policy, will be implemented in parallel with this radical reduction in council spending.

For the nimbys, the elephant in the architects' plans was a certain shaded area running parallel to the avenue designated for council housing.