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n. (city father English)
Usage examples of "city fathers".
You know how the City Fathers cram all that junk into our heads in class-well, they can take stuff out the same way.
I thought I'd made it clear that every penny of cash in Macao, Malacca, and Goa, and every penny the Macao traders and city fathers can borrow is invested in this year's venture.
The city fathers frowned on battles in a public inn at the best of times, and sixteen dead was a dismaying body count, even when the Guard didnt find two hradani in the midst of the carnage.
By the fifth day, the city fathers were thoroughly exhausted, bored and disgusted.
In panic the city fathers tore down the new lights and reinstalled the awful old ones, so that now Denver had one of the few unique Christmas displays in America.
Lucas suspected that early city fathers had built the Minneapolis City Hall as an elaborate practical joke on their progeny.
The City Fathers, in their wisdom, declared a complete close-down on press reports of the slaughter.
The city fathers of Augusta weren't about to waste money on street lighting for Negroes.
The city fathers of Johannesburg and the police were fully aware of the unacknowledged halfworld of the townships that had grown up south of the goldfields but, daunted by the prospect of closing them down and finding alternative accommodation for thousands of vagrants and illegals, they turned a blind eye, appeasing their civic consciences by occasional raids, arrests and the wholesale imposition of fines.
In 1985, after decades of neglect, the city fathers decided to refurbish the statue before it fell down.