Sentence examples for town assembly from inspiring English sources
Prodded by the local fishing cooperative, the town assembly voted 15 to 2 to make a public appeal for construction of the $4 billion reactor.
MINAMISANRIKU, Japan — Jin Sato, mayor of this quiet fishing port, had just given a speech to the town assembly on the need to strengthen tsunami preparation when the earthquake struck.
In 1019 Prince Yaroslav I the Wise of Kiev granted the town a charter of self-government; the town assembly, or veche, elected their prince, chiefly as a military commander.
Not only are there no police officers in town, there are also no mayor, city council, town assembly or anyone remotely in charge that might curb or direct development in the area.
A town assembly in Umtali sent the administrator a resolution asking him to confiscate all property in the colony owned by subjects of Germany and Austria within 48 hours "in view of German barbarity".
Although it's not much in the pantheon of insults, it was enough to get the eight members of the Nakatonbetsu town assembly plan to demand an explanation from the publishers of Bungeishunju.
There are no town halls or assembly rooms.
One day I hire a taxi for a little tour around the higher points of town, with their assembly of fortifications, which, although certainly historic, aren't much fun, lacking both charm and shade.
Although almost any alternative voting scheme now on offer is likely to be better than first past the post, it's unrealistic to think that one voting method would work equally well for, say, the legislature of a young African republic, the Presidency of an island in Oceania, the school board of a New England town, and the assembly of a country still scarred by civil war.
If decisions cannot be made solely at the local level, representatives attend town or regional assemblies, but these representatives remain accountable to the communal level and may only offer views that are approved locally.
Leading musicians perform in some of the most picturesque surroundings of their careers: ancient town squares and old assembly halls in the medieval hill town.
