Sentence examples for sympathetic council from inspiring English sources

You might even get the work of collecting them done for you, if you have a sympathetic council or a local road-sweeper who is willing to drop off some sacks to you.

Punch and Judy on the English beaches and Guignol in the parks of Paris still draw a crowd, but the indoor theatres that once attracted humble audiences survive with difficulty, usually with the aid of a sympathetic town council or a local museum.

Medieval craft guilds needed sympathetic town councils to guarantee their privileges; modern professions needed friendly governments.

But she is clear that she won't hesitate to intervene if local authorities fail to comply with the law: "We are absolutely sympathetic to councils who have to deal with homelessness arangements...but the bottom line is that this is an essential service".

But some local people I talk to are more sympathetic to the council.

Modern historian Jenny Wormald found this remarkable, suggesting that Mary's failure to appoint a council sympathetic to Catholic and French interests was an indication of her focus on the goal of the English throne over the internal problems of Scotland.

Only Joseph M. Delfino, the mayor and lone Republican on the council, was sympathetic to Mr. Cappelli and to the hotel that opened several months ago.

Some council members, sympathetic to Mr. DuPont's desire to help the environment, decided that educating the public on the environmental problems with the bags would be a better course of action.

There are very few upsides to being locked out of your place, but one of them is that you start to receive substantial assistance not just from sympathetic members of city council and the fire department, but also from a good number of state assembly members and senators.

Sympathetic rulers and city councils became the protagonists for Luther's cause and the cause of reform.

Board of Education officials said that while Mr. Levy was sympathetic to the New York Councils' insistence that the Boy Scouts in New York City do not discriminate against gays, he could not ignore that they are officially part of the larger national organization.