Sentence examples for significant council from inspiring English sources

"The project is set to enhance the park as a useable events space and will encourage people to visit the waterfront which has benefited from significant council investment over the last few years".

The study finds that when the manager is appointed by council, there is no significant council size effect, but that there is a negative effect when the manager is elected by voters for those expenditure categories over which the manager has the most discretion.

More significant, the council's research has found that some of these campaigns have also achieved impressive results.

In a highly significant move, council leaders in Edinburgh, Manchester, Newcastle, Liverpool, Leeds, Nottingham, Glasgow and many others signed up to the promise ahead of the crucial international climate talks that will take place next month in Paris.

UKIP had high hopes after significant local council gains, but has problems including a saga over their candidate selection process in December.

Another said: "There was significant dissent among council members uneasy about this".

"This is the most important decision the mayor will likely make in his administration, and it will be just as significant for the council," Mr. Padilla said.

It is significant that the council chosen to decide about licensing fracking was all male, majority Tory and no doubt grey-suited.

Today's Times suggests ministers are planning significant changes to council workers' pension arrangements – and probably to most other public sector pensions, too.

The report of Johnson's London Finance Commission says such a move could "generate a significant increase in council house building and deliver complex estate regeneration projects".

That plan was partly a crude political device, but one that also gave the likes of the Labour-dominated Manchester council significant additional powers.