Sentence examples for shadow councils from inspiring English sources

The timetable is tight, as elections to shadow councils are due in the summer of 2014.

Plans for the redevelopment of Dundonald Ice Bowl have been put on hold following a decision by the shadow council for the new Lisburn City and Castlereagh District Council.

Castlereagh District Council said that the shadow council had confirmed that "upgrading or the redevelopment of Dundonald International Ice Bowl would still be included in discussions regarding capital budgets for the new council and ongoing investigations into potential European funding for the project".

Castlereagh District Council said in a statement that a decision had been made by the shadow council for the new Lisburn City and Castlereagh District Council "not to proceed with the proposed plans to redevelop Dundonald International Ice Bowl in its current design, at this point in time".

Essentially shadow city councils, they allow adolescents to make practical decisions over issues affecting their lives – from the size of classrooms and the location of a pedestrian crossing to trash collection and water conservation.

Since he announced that he was quitting the Qaddafi government, Mr. Aujali has been making the case to anyone who will listen — reporters, senators and even Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton — that the White House should recognize the rebels' shadow government council.

The name was officially agreed at a meeting of the shadow super council in October.

As a result, 40 adolescents were elected as members of the CMC – which shadows city council and is aimed at getting more young people involved in decision making.

Such is his reach that the vice-president's office runs a shadow national security council out of the West Wing.

Already, there has been a row in the Mid-Ulster super-council, when a council meeting in "shadow" format resulted in a ban on the sale of poppies or Easter lilies on council property.

Hilary Benn, Pickles' counterpart in the shadow cabinet, said: "The council tax benefit cut is heading for disaster, and that's why the government has panicked.