Sentence examples for upper council from inspiring English sources

Then the voting for the Upper Council, the Shura, will commence.

The upper council, or Areopagus, he made inspectors and keepers of the laws, conceiving that the commonwealth, held by these two councils, like anchors, would be less liable to be tossed by tumults, and the people be more quiet.

One initiative calls on Mubarak to devolve to Suleiman the responsibilities of managing the transitional period, dissolving the Shura (consultative upper) council and People's Assembly (lower house) and form a committee of legal experts and independent judges to prepare constitutional amendments.

Despite this, Chirac angered the most senior judges inside the upper magistrates' council when he vetoed their participation in an inquiry into allegations that the bench in the Juppé trial had been harassed and threatened.

The Centre for Mental Health estimates that psychological problems cost the UK £105bn, or £500m per upper-tier council every year.

To date 318 of the upper tier councils and local authorities had reported their figures with an average median pay gap of 5.4%.

The upper house, the Council of States, approved the deal last week.

I would love to see him adopt Labour's policies on non-doms and Lib Dem proposals to extend the upper bands of council tax".

The upper house, the council of states (Rajya Sabha), consists of a maximum of 250 members; the great majority are apportioned by state each state's delegates are chosen by its elected assembly and 12 members are appointed by the president.

If Izzi Seccombe's Warwickshire were indeed to go unitary, the upper-tier county council she leads would itself be wound up.

The Russian federation council, the upper house of parliament, will meet today to discuss possible new measures, said Stanislav Vavilov, head of the council's committee on law.