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n. (city council English)
Usage examples of "city councils".
Congresses, diets, parliaments, city councils--legislative bodies in general--lack the time, the resources, or the organizational forms needed to think seriously about the long-term future.
It would not be easy to persuade the individual city councils to relinquish power.
In short order both city councils raised property taxes, hiked garbage fees, rezoned residential neighborhoods to accommodate certain special interests (a tire dump in Beckerville.
En route back to Haspide, in the midst of all this ceremonial much of it, I'd still insist, mere flummery the King set up numerous city councils, instituted more craft and professional guilds and granted various counties and towns the privileged status of burgh.
This would not be one of those shoddy public monuments city councils erected, Signor Bartolomeo Pardini declared with scorn.
The Brisbane and Ipswich city councils emulated Cathy's victory lap by flying both the Aboriginal flag and the Australian flag from their poles.
They went to city councils, to monasteries, to subscription clubs in small towns, and even to village taverns.
Most ports and islands on Thassa, of course, are not managed by the Merchants, but, commonly, by magistrates appointed by the city councils.
The meat-man who ruled a civic smudge called the Internment Facility when it was listed on the City Councils budget every year.
Town and city councils everywhere were shaken to find their cosy cabals invaded and the harsh light of popular enquiry being directed into some very cobwebby corners.