Sentence examples for the role of the council from inspiring English sources

The organizers gathered elected officials -- including Peter F. Vallone, the City Council speaker, and Thomas V. Ognibene, the Council Republican leader -- to talk about the role of the Council.

The clear inference, it will be argued, is that this shows the Council was to exercise a deliberative role on that issue, ie to determine what it is necessary to secure international peace and security; (iii) any other construction reduces the role of the Council discussion under OP12 to a procedural formality.

Tina Tchen, the executive director of the council, says the role of the council is to "lift up issues" that impact women and girls.

Democracy in the Union rests on two pillars.6 The EU is a union of states and of citizens – as epitomised by the role of the Council composed of member states representatives and the directly elected EP, representing the states and the citizens respectively.

In a statement released during the night between Thursday and Friday, the president explained that the role of the council would be to find solutions to ease the political tension that has gripped the country since February.

As Zwingli was convinced that doctrinal matters had to conform to the word of God rather than the hierarchy, he recognised the role of the council as the only body with power to act if the religious authorities refused to undertake reform.

The bankruptcy plan calls for a new Charter, saying the current one neutralizes executive authority, and that the roles of the council, manager, attorney and mayor "are unclear and at times, contradict each other".

"I would say it demonstrates the broad international acceptance of the role of the Arctic Council, because by being observer, these organizations and states, they accept the principles and the sovereignty of the Arctic Council on Arctic issues," he said when asked if adding participants threatened to dilute the council's effectiveness.

Protests in Tahrir Square continue about the role of the military council and the need for elections.

She said the preamble of the union's governing statute "clearly clarifies the role of the staff council" as supervising the polling officers.

Surely the role of the arts council should be to nurture the arts, not subsidise the millionaire lifestyles of "star" singers, conductors, performers?