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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Councillors and aldermen commanded grander funerals than those of guild liverymen, for their status was higher.
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In other eras, the aldermen ran the city and plundered it.
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Labour gained one seat but lost two in the by-election following appointment of aldermen.
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Leroy had quit his ward organization to run against the regular candidate for alderman .
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Many of the Daley aldermen are ward bosses.
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Often he is resignedly mutilated by sour aldermen, by painfully fat lord mayors, by put-upon railway porters.
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Paul Sheridan, ward boss and alderman , begat Paul Sheridan, alderman.