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mayor

A mayor is the government leader of a village, town, or city. Next November, city council and Mayor Arakawa are up for reelection. Former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani will be speaking at a dinner on Tuesday. After Riordan was elected mayor, he appointed Delgadillo as deputy mayor. Palin took office as mayor in October 1996.

mayor

the head of a city government

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Simple sentences

He was elected mayor.
She is said to have had an affair with the mayor of the town.
Tom got into an argument with the mayor of his hometown.
We elected him to be mayor.
The candidate is running for mayor.
Mr Smith is a candidate for mayor.
The mayor of this city was blamed for turning a deaf ear to the people's requests.
The mayor is not available now.
The new mayor is well spoken of by the citizens.
The news of the mayor's resignation traveled fast.
The mayor will shortly announce his decision to resign.
The mayor addressed the general public.
The Mayor addressed a large audience.
The mayor presented him with the key to the city.
We elected her mayor.
I ran for the mayor.
To the astonishment of the whole city, the mayor was arrested.
Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel.
It's said that the mayor is on the take.
The mayor's family was harassed with threatening phone calls all day.
The mayor prescribed to the citizens how to act.
The mayor provided me with an identity card.
The mayor granted our request.
The mayor denied having taken a bribe.
It is not surprising that he was elected mayor.
We elected him mayor.

Movie subtitles

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.
Mayor Joe Perry.
He's in the mayor's office.
Mayor Perry?
Councilman Dreyfuss is airing out all of Mayor Perry's dirty laundry.
Dreyfuss for mayor!
Mayor Perry will not be the next mayor of Los Angeles.
Hello. This is Mayor Evan Whitestone.
Mayor Whitestone.
Brokenwood's most popular mayor.
Whether to refer to him as the mayor or Santa Claus.
We have a mayor with his throat cut.
He was the most popular mayor ever.
My chief of staff, who's retired, is now the mayor of Toulon.
And you, Ludovic, because the townspeople had elected you republican mayor!
The mayor's house.
At the end of the hay harvesting, Saint-Luc celebrated the marriage of its mayor.
But he's the Mayor himself.
Even the mayor is here!
The mayor?
Who's arriving today, Mr. Mayor?
Mr. Mayor, who is the gentleman who is in deep conversation with the Emir of Bukhara?
The mayor of Ohio.
They've phoned from the mayor's reception to remind you it's past the hour for the reception.
I want to see the mayor for you.
The Mayor's gonna make another speech.
We can tear up the Mayor's speech when we get there.
Yes, Mr. Mayor.
We should not be wasting valuable police resources on a dog, regardless of its relationship to the sister-in-law of the Mayor.
The next day, a delegation came to ask Mr. Lepic to run for mayor.
And we'll finally have a mayor worthy of the village.
It's a foregone conclusion, Mr Mayor.
He couldn't stand the old mayor.
Ah, here's the mayor.
But I can't write, Mr Mayor.
You'll come and join the wedding party, Mr Mayor?
Your health, Mr Mayor.
Hey, Mr Mayor!
Let the mayor dance!
We visit the village in the company of the mayor.
We ask the mayor what's wrong with her.

News and current affairs

His comments infuriated London's provocative mayor, Boris Johnson, himself a classics scholar and author, who shot back that Clooney's position on the issue was similar to that of the Nazis portrayed in his film.
Having been the mayor of Jerusalem for 10 years, you know the situation of Palestinians close up.
He is robbed of his property by the corrupt mayor, who is paid by the Orthodox Church for the right to build a new church on Nikolay's land.
Then Bucharest's mayor, Traian Basescu, proposes a plan to control the dogs: the city government will put to sleep any dog without an owner.
Mayor Basescu wants to be the next leader of the Democratic Party (now led by former Prime Minister, Petre Roman) and is said to be preparing to run for president in 2004.
So, all street dogs, the mayor promised, would be caught and quarantined.
As for Qalibaf, the mayor of Tehran, he proudly confessed that he was directly involved in the violent crackdown on student protesters in 2003.
When the popular former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, attempted to ban large sugary drinks, public opinion - not to mention the New York State Court of Appeals - rejected the effort, despite support from medical experts.
Ever since, Republican governments in the US have slashed funding for ballet, poetry in schools, and sculpture, while demagogues like former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani have gained political traction by attacking controversial visual arts.
The purge of a former mayor of Beijing, Chen Xitong, and his cronies, also on charges of corruption, could not have happened without evidence gathered by official spies.
Examining the pretentious homes so tastelessly decorated, I asked who owned them and was told that one house was that of a deputy mayor of Moscow, another housed a famous singer, another the son of the Moscow prosecutor.
They say of their mayor: Sure he steals, but look how much he has done for the city!
Jean-Marie Bockel, the Socialist mayor of Mulhouse, is Minister for Cooperation and Relations with the Francophone world.
Polls show him trailing Oscar Berger, a conservative former Guatemala City mayor supported by the business community, as well as the more leftist candidate, Alvaro Colom.
Leviathan is about a decent man whose life is ruined by the mayor of his town in collusion with the Russian Orthodox Church and a corrupt judiciary.
Meanwhile, London Mayor Boris Johnson suggested removing children from radicalized parents.
But Ortega is creating a state of emergency in his party as he tries to diminish the threat posed by Herty Lewites, the former mayor of Managua and the country's most popular politician.
Back in his radical days, Ken Livingstone, the former mayor of London, famously quipped that if voting changed anything, they would abolish it.
But, unless New York's populist new mayor, Bill de Blasio, tries to run the banks out of town, Western sheriff-style, these cities do not seem likely to steal Wall Street's crown anytime soon.
Yet, despite the harsh rhetoric, when Miss Bardot and Mayor Basescu met, they parted with a kiss.
Iran's choice for its next president, the hardline Mayor of Teheran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is likely to worsen relations with the West and the country's international isolation.

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