How to Use council in a Sentence

council

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  • The city council is considering a ban on smoking in restaurants.
  • More than 50 people spoke to the council ahead of the votes.
    — Everton Bailey Jr., Dallas News, 16 June 2023
  • That’s the true, the ultimate hypocrisy of this council.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 July 2023
  • The police union has blamed the city council's actions for the rise in crime.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Some of the council members said that’s simply too long to wait.
    — John Sharp | [email protected], al, 29 Aug. 2023
  • But More stopped short of urging the council to take a legal risk.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Both Russia and the U.S. hold veto powers in the council.
    — NBC News, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The proposal will expire at the end of the year unless a council member brings it back off the table.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 4 Oct. 2023
  • Watson said Platt and the others would meet with city staff on March 25, and sit for interviews with him and the council the next day.
    — Mike Hendricks, Kansas City Star, 5 Mar. 2024
  • None of the council's rationale for this flag holds water.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 10 July 2023
  • Montgomery Steppe is the latest in a long line of Black leaders to represent the district on the council.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 May 2023
  • Craig told the Denison council that his team has the capital for the purchase and a contract with the Schuler family to buy the land.
    — Steve Brown, Dallas News, 16 May 2023
  • The council voted Friday to add this request to the council's agenda.
    — Michael R. Wickline, Arkansas Online, 22 July 2023
  • Newton asked just how many firms were representing the council in the case.
    — Joseph D. Bryant | [email protected], al, 12 July 2023
  • Among them: Did council members fall short by failing to go to Mejia with their concerns?
    — David Zahniser, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2023
  • And the council says policies like those enacted last year in eight states run afoul of those standards.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The council has until the end of June to approve a balanced budget, including a way to address the deficit.
    — Theresa Clift, Sacramento Bee, 24 Feb. 2024
  • Four downtown business owners spoke to the council in support of the effort.
    — Stacy Ryburn, Arkansas Online, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Montgomery Steppe was reelected to the council just last year to a term that ends in December 2026.
    — Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Worrall was one of five candidates vying for two open at-large seats on the town council.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 8 Nov. 2023
  • The limit would apply to terms served on the council after November 2026.
    — Jason Fontelieu, Baltimore Sun, 15 June 2023
  • But council members called for an unredacted version to be shared.
    — Nicole Asbury, Washington Post, 9 Feb. 2024
  • Invited to the meeting were the heads of all the West Bank settler councils, a point Ms. Schneider says was revealing.
    — Neri Zilber, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Nov. 2023
  • If approved by council on Monday, the sale would close by the end of the month, according to local news media outlets.
    — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • Members of the Metro Council created a Charging Committee and the formal charges were read in front of the council.
    — Eleanor McCrary, The Courier-Journal, 18 Mar. 2024
  • Keith, in his second term on the council, was arrested Feb. 2 and charged with one count of fourth-degree theft at Walmart.
    — Paul Gattis | [email protected], al, 9 May 2023
  • In December, 2020, the city council approved a cat program much like the one that had been proposed more than a decade earlier.
    — Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Chris Brown, the city's public works director, asked the council to approve the agreement before Sept. 30, when a new state law will take effect.
    — Stacy Ryburn, arkansasonline.com, 20 Dec. 2023
  • An interim council now runs the town, albeit with few of the powers of a regular government.
    — David Shortell, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • The council also recommended that the California Fish and Game Commission close down inland fishing for salmon on the state’s rivers at a meeting next month.
    — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2024

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