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The revolutionary council met to plan strategy.
The Council Education Committee wants to close a school, but some people don't agree with the idea.
The student council discussed plans for the graduation.
Lee Leffingwell is the head of the Austin City Council.
They live in a council house.
They live in a council flat.
The council refuses to grit my road.
I've been on the city council for five years.
Tom did everything within his power to keep Mary from being elected president of the student council.
The Lvov city council is once more drawing attention to false information regarding the intention to ban speaking Russian in Lvov.
There will he find an Egmont and an Orange, the brave warriors of Emperor Charles, as wise in council as they are formidable in the field.
To follow a council is to shift the responsibility.
The Council slaves whipped him with their hippopotamus hide whips.
The council began at 9:00 and should be finished by 10:45.
An executive council was formed to discuss the new proposal.
Tom and Mary are members of the Galactic Council.
Dear passengers! The Minsk City Council and the Executive Committee of the City of Minsk cordially send their greetings on the occasion of the Nativity of Christ and the new year and wish you happiness, health and well-being.
I'm running for city council.
The United Nations Security Council is a very important organisation.
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That means that the lord mayor, the sheriffs, the city council, the freemen, the Iiverymen and the aldermen are all more than 800 years old, making this the world's oldest autonomous commercial institution.
Yeah, she's been at the council forever, right?
Because? Evan wouldn't bend the rules to push it through council.
So, Pete decided to become the council?
I'm sure the council will reconsider.
She was a tenacious council employee.
Minutes from a closed council meeting.
I'm afraid I have to report the incident to the General Nursing Council and the Central Midwives Board.
Well, we have an ordinance prohibiting the distribution of handbills without the prior approval of town council. You're not serious, are you?
I'm pretty sure the town council would approve.
Twenty years later, he's running City Council.
Indomitable and cruel, the Council of Elders reigned in Florence.
The Council of Elders, which hates joy, has had your goddess arrested, because she gave you a day of joy!
Decree of the Austrian Federal Council The corps of officials will be disbanded.
Since that is the case, could you arrange a meeting between myself as head of the Jewish Council, and the governor-general?
Must have been too loud for you in Student Council?
The Council of Eight!
Listen to the Council of Eight!
The council of the Aloas.
The French Ambassador, Monsieur Chanut, is waiting in the council chamber.
The Council awaits Her Majesty.
Her Majesty is waiting for you in the council chamber.
Her Majesty's in council.
Soon as the council's over, I'll notify him.
Lord Raglan can't be disturbed while the war council's in session.
I shall take this up at the family council, yes.
Council is dismissed.
You're a child in council.
We are the legal council for Club M.
I cannot bear the responsibility for a such a decision by myself and I therefore ask you to appear before your family council. the day after tomorrow at 2 in the afternoon.
Ranger Leader Wilson, at the last meeting of the Boy Rangers' Council of the county of Habersville it was decided to bestow upon you a token of appreciation.
Gentlement from the city council, I have nothing more to say to you.
All it did was attract the city council.
On behalf of the city council.
War council's beginning.
Let's go to the council!
In the year 1648, day 18th, month of April we convened a council of Zaporizhian Sich!
Hetman calls starshina to the council.
Tell Hetman: where there's a woman there can be no council.
I hesitate to think what the medical council would say.
Dr. Courtland, advanced theories are always a sore point with the medical council.
News and current affairs
The Council would declare that further proliferation of nuclear weapons is a threat to peace, and that any country moving in that direction is subject to sanctions.
It is time for the Security Council to try to internationalize the most dangerous parts of the nuclear fuel cycle.
This pattern of action and inaction by the Council has given greater credence to those who believe the UN's highest human rights body is inherently anti-Israel.
By means of a binding UN Security Council resolution, Kosovo could be granted full and exclusive authority over its citizens and territory, as well as limited capacity for action on the international scene.
In principle, an independent and respected advisory council could also force governments to acknowledge the hidden costs of government guarantees and off-balance sheet debts.
The remit of Sweden's fiscal council is particularly broad, giving it a mandate not only to forecast, but also to look more deeply at the motivations and consequences of government policy.
In principle, an independent fiscal council could have provided invaluable help during the financial crisis.
The Commission's progress report will be dealt with by the European Council next month.
The United Nations Security Council has authorized the International Security Assistance Force to take all necessary measures to fulfill its mandate.
This is exactly what the European Commission did recently by providing its first strategy for a post-Kyoto era, which will be discussed by the European Council next March.
Slow growth has silenced the monetarists on the ECB's Governing Council.
Members accept the obligation not to use force except in self-defense or unless it is authorized by the Security Council.
Ever since the Gulf war, Iraq has been a source of friction among the western permanent members of the UN Security Council.
On May 14, 2002, the Security Council gave the tottering sanctions regime a new lease on life by unanimously adopting a simplified screening procedure.
This deal could then be given teeth by the UN Security Council.
New York - This week the United Nations Human Rights Council will debate the report of the fact-finding mission led by Judge Richard Goldstone on human rights violations in the Gaza conflict.
I have no doubt that those involved were seeking a way forward that would allow for a full investigation and help overcome the political divisiveness currently undermining the Human Rights Council within the UN system.
Most people have forgotten that the Paris Protocols of April 1994 established a customs union between Israel and the occupied territories, with a joint Economic Council to adjudicate trade disputes.
For that to happen, Mogherini must assert herself as a leader, backed by Juncker and the new European Council president, Donald Tusk.
Failure to do so, in the view of Goldstone's commission, should result in the Security Council referring the matter to the prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in The Hague.
Some of the reform talk concerns the UN Security Council's composition.
This helps to explain why a much-weakened France was made a permanent member of the Council - and why Germany and Japan (and a not-yet independent India) were not.
Defending the Security Council's current make-up is impossible; the need for change is beyond debate.