Sentence examples for running for the city from inspiring English sources

Before running for the city council, Ed Buscemi, a former Marine, studied towards a master's degree in suburban planning at Adelphi University.

Both Mr. Stringer, who is running for the city comptroller's office, and Brian Kavanagh, the New York state assemblyman who collaborated on the report, expect that other elements could be financed gradually while the storm protections could receive a boost from the billions in federal money that was recently allocated in response to Hurricane Sandy.

That is probably a good thing because the worry a year ago was that some candidates would be running for the city's matching money instead of for the offices.

Ray Nagin, a businessman, and Richard Pennington, on leave from his job as police chief, are running for the city's top job at a time when its economy is stagnating.

"Four years ago, before I ran for the city council," Mr. Berrones said, we had 200 registered Hispanic voters.

When he ran for the city council just after his sentencing in 1990, only poor Ward 8 now ravaged by drugs and dereliction cast its votes for him.

In 1977, as a sophomore at Washington State University, in the small town of Pullman, he ran for the city council on a whim, and won by fifty-three votes.

She ran for the city council of Truchtersheim, France, in 1989, and was very active in her husband Emmanuel Macron's recent Presidential campaign.

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"Strahan clearly has money and name recognition, but the outsider status is not as relevant for local politics because most people who run for the city council will not have had extensive political experience, at least not in elective politics".

Lucy has spoken about her private nature, acknowledging it is at odds with her decision to run for the City of Sydney council, where she went on to become deputy mayor in 1999 and lord mayor in 2003.