Local admin bodies

Usage examples of councils.

In some areas, the Iraqi component will be obvious--a local shaykh acknowledged by all, for instance--in other places it may not be so obvious, and councils of elders or committees of professionals and notables might be necessary.

He set a small leather bag filled with gold councils on the ground between them.

Trotts had taken on the task of attending the war councils, leaving the captain out of the picture.

The archbishop was above all anxious to secure in the councils of the new king the due influence not only of the Church, but of the new school of the canon lawyers who were so profoundly modifying the Church.

The routine of silent and submissive councils had been broken through, and the earliest signs of discussion and deliberation had discovered themselves, while the Church, exerting in its assemblies an authority which the late king had helplessly laid down, formed a new and effective centre of organized resistance to tyranny in the future Even the rising towns had seized the moment when the central administration was paralysed to extend their own privileges, and to acquire large powers of self-government which were to prove the fruitful sources of liberty for the whole people.

During the next two years Henry was in perpetual movement through the land from Devon to Lincoln, and between March 1176 and August 1177 he summoned eighteen great councils, besides many others of less consequence.

Alengwyneh king had not let the Euchee have their old tribal or clan councils to govern themselves.