Sentence examples for state councils from inspiring English sources

Those approaches became templates for state councils nationwide.

While the national union has not endorsed a presidential candidate, its state councils have been freed to do so.

Members of the former are directly elected to a five-year term, while members of the latter, who also serve a five-year term, can be either selected by state councils or directly elected if state councils exercise the option to hold an election.

The cooperative conventions (state and international) also became instruments of ecumenical participation, electing representatives to the old Federal Council of Churches (and to the succeeding National Council and the World Council of Churches) as well as to the state councils.

During the Russo-Japanese War (1904 05) he was named special adviser to the minister of finance and at the request of the emperor attended all important state councils.

The legislature also established more state councils and commissions -- in one session last month, both the Domestic Violence Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board in the Department of Community Affairs and the State Public Safety Interoperable Communications Coordinating Council.

He became a member of the state council in 1902.

The continuing decline of Norway was indicated by the abolition of the Norwegian state council.

The Chinese prime minister, Wen Jiabao, raised these issues in the state council this year.

STATE COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 1999 AND 2000 FELLOWSHIP EXHIBITION Hunterdon Museum of Art, 7 Lower Center Street, Clinton.

Last year, ministry officials told Chinese media they were still awaiting state council approval for publication.