noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a council house British English (= one owned by a local council that people can rent cheaply )
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The rent rise is a blow to council house tenants.
borough council
city council
council estate
council house
council of war
council tax
council/industrial/housing etc estate
county council
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Kent County Council
district council
Learning and Skills Council, the
legislative assembly/council/body etc (= one with the power to make laws )
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the main legislative body of the EC
local council
parish council
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elections to the parish council
Privy Council
town council
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
full
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Councillors complained that the full council should have been consulted before planning permission was given.
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Essentially, council subcommittee recommendations formulated the week of September 17 were accepted without question by the full council five days later.
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Coun Pendlebury told a meeting of the full county council yesterday that seven other schemes are in jeopardy.
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The subcommittee presented its recommendation to the full council on November 18, two weeks after the first public hearing.
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This board would receive wide delegated powers and be the sole channel through which business done in committees reached the full council .
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The statutory location of decision-making power in a local authority rests in the full council .
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Some councils therefore still insist on every committee decision being referred to the full council for confirmation or rejection.
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The full council will confirm the charges set on 4 March.
labour
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The proposal, put forward by Lothian, has the strong support of other big Labour council groups like Strathclyde and Tayside.
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It was the hope of central-government support that, on the whole, dominated thinking within Labour councils .
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The chapter of the way in which some Labour councils have behaved is well documented.
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They endeavoured, on a number of levels, to make themselves more accountable than previous Labour councils had been.
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By 1983-4, penalties on overspending authorities amounted to over £200 million - almost all of which fell on urban Labour councils .
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One of the most controversial areas of intervention by these new-style Labour councils was Equal Opportunities.
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If you look at Oxford City, we have many Labour councillors on the Labour city council .
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We do in fact have control of the Labour city council .
legislative
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It provided for Kurdish legislative and executive councils , but real power was retained by the central government in Baghdad.
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Without a constitution, the powers of the legislative council are unclear.
local
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In April local councils acquired an important new power.
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An announcement is made: The local tenants' council has a meeting planned for Friday.
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With good will from Government, charities, housing associations and local councils , something may be done.
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With local councils deadlocked, King must decide.
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Hence, the argument runs, even without central financial control most local councils would have been providing similar levels of services.
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But the local council says it's being forced to cut back to meet Government spending limits.
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But the local council has put it in the highest council tax band - for houses worth at least three hundred thousand pounds.
national
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These are established through national joint councils , consisting of representatives of employers and employees, supplemented by local variations and agreements.
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The national security council heard calls for resources to be redirected from the elite nuclear forces to beef up conventional arms spending.
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A 105-member national council was also elected.
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The Council is associated with other local authorities represented on the national and provincial councils dealing with local authorities' services.
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She was planning to work with the national examinations council in Kigali next year.
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But after a hurriedly arranged meeting, involving the national gipsy council , an uneasy truce was reached.
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His most relevant texts here are those on the national council held at Enham in Hampshire probably in 1008.
new
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But Powergen bosses have reacted quickly to the new council demands.
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Inside a community center, the new council members sat through three hours of speeches.
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The options costed by Touche Ross covered plans for 15, 24, 35 or 51 new councils .
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That means the new council should cast it.
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In the words of a working-class housewife living on a new council estate: It depends what you call friends.
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Gunnarson may have his hands full with what some critics of the new council majority describe as an aggressive and demanding bunch.
regional
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An official at Zaporizha's regional council said one welder was burned to death immediately.
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The Council would be responsible for naming nine regional councils , each comprising three members including one opposition member.
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This week the local regional council , Lothian, revealed that over £25 million was outstanding.
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We have district councils and regional councils.
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We would also have to discuss the availability of regional council workers to man the helplines.
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Conservative regional council chiefs denounced the idea and declared their backing for Congress.
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borough
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Neither Mr Fallon nor Mr Bergg can expect any help from the borough council .
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The borough council recognises that its newer cemeteries such as Acklam and Thorntree are in need of attention.
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Alexei features in a 20minute video bought by the borough council for a major anti-vandalism campaign to be launched early next year.
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Cheltenham Borough council says it wants to save money to meet spending limits but no final decision has yet been made.
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District and borough councils will become wholly responsible for cleaning all roads except motorways.
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Simply ask your borough council planning department, who will be able to advise you.
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Splashing out: Children in Hartlepool will soon be able to have more fun than ever, thanks to the borough council .
chamber
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This reluctance to take office is recalled during the annual mayor-making in the council chamber of the town hall.
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She waited patiently in council chambers for about two hours for the issue to be taken up in executive session.
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No wonder Mosley was smiling as he stood in the cast council chamber .
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Tribal members said there was standing room only in the council chamber , which holds about 60 people.
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Ambassador Richard Holbrooke into the council chamber .
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Yet the Government expected unionists to sit in the same council chamber with them.
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A colleague stumbled on the couple romping in a first-floor office just yards from the council chamber .
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Amsterdam Mayor Job Cohen presided over the midnight ceremony in the council chambers , which were decorated with red and pink roses.
city
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The debate in Birmingham has reached something like fever pitch, now that the city council is faced with two rival development schemes.
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The city council met, discussed the issue, and eventually voted to go ahead.
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If you look at Oxford City , we have many Labour councillors on the Labour city council .
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Because the city council has this information, it no longer votes on line items: it votes on service levels.
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The city council , famous in the 1980s for its bitter internal disputes, could not be more pliant.
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The city council ranks them and votes to eliminate the most expendable.
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Birmingham city council says the tour will help it find new ways of dealing with racism.
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The recall was the first and only nonpartisan city council election in Tucson history.
county
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The county council plans to build a bypass so that the A148 will no longer bisect the conservation village of Letheringsett.
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All 3 political groups on the county council , supported by hundreds of parents, agreed an education budget above Government limits.
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If that fails it will be the first village school to be closed by the county council in the last five years.
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The suggestion was made at a joint meeting of all sides organised by North Yorkshire county council .
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The county council recently agreed that firms and organisations can sponsor displays as advertisements.
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A number of years ago she worked in the social services department of Cleveland county council .
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It is not the task of the county councils to assess the cost benefit of the scheme in detail.
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But the county council also questions devoting resources to roads which do not have a high number of accidents.
district
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These agencies include district council recreation departments, local sports councils, voluntary organisations and clubs.
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District councils came into being as a result of the 1974 legislation which, interalia, abolished rural district councils.
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Sadly, it seems that he has failed to grasp the relationship between the district council and the board.
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But that could all change with proposals to merge the council with the six smaller district councils within the county.
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This is because Mrs. Gilmour will be taking the petition along to the district council offices the following day.
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East Northants district council wrote asking me to make that specific point.
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Table 10.1 illustrates this with reference to revenue expenditure on basic services by the ten district councils in the Greater Manchester area in 1987/8.
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That is also the view of the Dorney and Taplow parish councils and the South Buckinghamshire district council.
election
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Elections for the new assembly were scheduled for June 1973, but before that date there were local council elections.
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The recall was the first and only nonpartisan city council election in Tucson history.
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Next April's council elections could prove a nasty shock.
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The Haringey Lesbian and Gay Unit was established weeks before the 1986 council elections , and it featured prominently in the campaign.
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The local council elections in May appeared to be a watershed in the party's and, therefore Mrs Thatcher's fortunes.
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Under the Bill parties must give half the candidates' places in forthcoming town council elections to women.
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Later in the year the committee sponsored four candidates in council elections .
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The Conservatives' best hope for the county council elections , held on the same day, was to contain losses.
estate
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Here were the factories, the council estates and - just a few yards beyond the Redburns' back garden - the railway.
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In addition to the palatial and leafy suburbs, there are areas of inner-city terraced housing awaiting redevelopment and large outlying council estates .
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Harry Secombe was the third child of a none-too-successful commercial traveller living on a council estate near Swansea.
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The rows of white tents are numbered like a council estate .
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Raw council estates spilled over the fields at the edge of town, marring the views.
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I found myself in a grey council estate that faced the river.
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The larger of the two branches met in a community centre near a council estate .
house
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Drugs squad officers in Wiltshire discovered another drug factory in the bedroom of a council house yesterday.
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Their desire to keep rates down made them reluctant to build council houses .
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I was living with my mam in a council house .
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I was under the impression that people who rented council houses would have to pay the new council tax in addition to their rents.
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Government rules prevent the use of that money to build council houses but Coun Munsey wants Mr Major to overturn those policies.
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I can not remember a previous time when we have bought back a former council house .
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I spoke to a middle-aged woman in Sunderland who moved into her council house when it was new thirty years ago.
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We will revolutionise the management of council houses and flats.
housing
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It is a way, for example, of liberating people from council housing waiting lists.
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Duncan and Goodwin examine the subsidizing of council housing , via contributions made from the rates, in London in 1984/85.
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Moreover, the resulting decline in council housing has begun to lead to the rise of the ghetto.
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A first step for this current administration would be to discard its ideologically-inspired opposition to council housing building.
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There in a tiny traditional house flanked by council housing lives Mrs MacKenzie.
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Once a land of dour council housing , thousands now own their own houses.
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About three quarters of both groups lived in owner occupied or council housing .
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The provision of council housing has had an equalising effect both as regards reducing overcrowding and improving housing amenities among working-class people.
leader
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And riders are also being asked to tell council leaders what they need in Britain's biggest metropolitan borough, Doncaster.
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However, council leader Iain Coleman said yesterday that the council would oppose ground-sharing.
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In your report the council leader states that they would be increasing parking for the disabled in Abbot's Yard.
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But in his last job, Mr Redwood was just beginning to come to terms with Labour council leaders .
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In Brent, council leader Merle Amory had to organize an emergency meeting of the pension-fund investment panel.
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But council leaders nationally have complained that a decade of education cuts make this the bleakest year yet.
meeting
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The claim, drawn up by the national executive, will be discussed by a union council meeting on 14 October.
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An attendance policy for council meetings .
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Councillor Sam James took along a window frame to the March parish council meeting .
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The public have a statutory right to be present during council meetings and committee meetings.
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In 1987 he argued for a beefed-up Neddy with the council meetings chaired by the industry secretary rather than by the chancellor.
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It is one of the privileges of a councillor in a council meeting to see that other members obey standing orders.
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At a full council meeting in Darlington members heard the appeal is going well.
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In a unique demonstration they left their schools to sit in on a county council meeting discussing the cuts.Tim Hurst reports.
member
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No other permanent security council member is likely to want to get involved.
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Legislators, city council members , and school board members are often lawyers or small-business people.
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The only council member who can be seen to be motivated by hostility to the family is William, lord Hastings.
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Some current city council members are also concerned that Connie Chambers residents could get shafted if their complex is leveled.
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First, there should be a clearer division between council member and officer.
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The mayor is only the first of 15 council members , his one vote no stronger than that of the other 14.
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Nine council members serve part time in Huntington Beach, sharing a clerical staff of three.
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He said he got a positive reaction from council members to his remarks about Western aid but declined to elaborate.
officer
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Bioplan's scheme for traffic control had been accepted by Durham county council and Darlington council officers .
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Darlington council officers say £3,500 damage has been caused to works in the Myles Meehan Gallery.
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It's prompted council officers in Oxfordshire to put their contingency plans to the test.
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But council officers are again going to ask for improvements.
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The government has already introduced tougher laws on food hygiene and now it hopes the register will help council officers enforce them.
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Voice over Meanwhile council officers in Swindon say they can't cope with any more terrapins.
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But the finding has worried council officers who now want urgent talks with Harwell.
parish
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The £11,000 cost will be met through £4,000 from the parish council , grants and fundraising by the project committee.
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Now the former chairman of Merrybent parish council has written about his struggle against heart disease in a medical journal.
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Council meeting: The parish council met yesterday.
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The Parish council would, therefore, strongly urge your committee to refuse this application.
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There was nothing that the parish council could do, as at the time much of the area was within Old Alresford.
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There is also a third tier of parish councils , with minimal powers.
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A variety of independent museum are run by Trusts, local societies, parish councils and enthusiastic individuals.
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At the third tier, parish councils were created in 1894 and charged with administering poor relief.
research
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How do you persuade the research council or the science supremo of an industrial research outfit to fund your brilliant new ideas?
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Based in the Cabinet Office he will have responsibility, amongst other things, for the research councils .
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The practicalities are being considered by the research councils in the Department of Education in Northern Ireland.
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Then they will ask the research council for the £30 million they will need for the project.
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Phillips thinks the research councils could lose out on the transfer.
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Phillips's letter assesses how cuts might affect the research councils .
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Between 1979-80 and 1990-91, the total of new studentships awarded by research councils rose by almost 28 percent.
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The University Grants Committee and the research councils worked together on the selection job.
security
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We're prepared to cooperate fully with any security council inquiry.
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No other permanent security council member is likely to want to get involved.
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The national security council heard calls for resources to be redirected from the elite nuclear forces to beef up conventional arms spending.
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The United Nations security council has set up a commission of inquiry.
tax
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He also wanted to scrap the council tax discount offered to second-home owners.
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On the other hand, the council tax is also a bit-of-a-poll-tax.
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District council tax rates, which have yet to be set, must be added to these figures.
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Not bad, not bad I've been sorting out my council tax George.
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We can test the fairness of the council tax by looking at the bill that the Secretary of State himself will face.
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That internal contradiction means that the council tax will not survive.
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First under the poll tax and now under the council tax, central control has replaced local democracy in determining spending.
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The council tax Bill exists because the poll tax was the disaster that so many hon. Members said it would be.
tenant
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But some of Swindon's council tenants can't understand the local authorities position.
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She was a former council tenant who had already bought her council house.
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For council tenants , London rents have more than trebled between 1979 and 1989.
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This office will deal with all matters regarding council tenants services such as repairs, transfers, and rent queries.
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The number of former council tenants who have bought their homes has risen to 1.4 million.
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Mrs Bujok and her family occupied a house as council tenants .
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A campaign to encourage council tenants and people on the waiting list to buy the low-cost homes was launched last October.
town
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The townsmen developed no organizational bases comparable to those of Western cities, no craft guilds or town councils .
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But last week, the town council unanimously rejected her request to officially add the tilde.
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The town council arranged the funeral and the guild members attended in a secondary role.
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Going to a town council meeting was decidedly not what he wanted to do with his evening.
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Instead the town council has decided that a civic medallion should be worn instead.
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The post office uses some of the lodge space, and the town council meets there, too.
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Under the Bill parties must give half the candidates' places in forthcoming town council elections to women.
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For many years he was a member of the town council of Lincoln and in 1858-9 was chief magistrate.
worker
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They told her they were council workers who'd come to fix her doors.
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Volunteers have been forced to leave the movement's centrally situated shop in Skinnergate while renovations are carried out by council workers .
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Another sure sign, is that council worker Derek Gamage is out with them.
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People living in Marl Drive staged a demonstration after waiting more than 18 hours for council workers to come to their assistance.
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Time allowed 05:41 Read in studio A mass meeting of council workers has been told that redundancies are unavoidable.
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We would also have to discuss the availability of regional council workers to man the helplines.
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elect
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They have developed a reasonably efficient administration, with an elected parliament and municipal councils .
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But both say the loan was paid off by December 1993, almost a year before Gentry was elected to the council .
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He is a former Whitby town councillor and was elected to Cleveland county council in 1985.
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While the newly elected council members eventually supported reducing the amount of the increase, the hike was still significant.
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No Latino has been elected to the council there.
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In city government, public policy is supposed to be enacted by an elected mayor and council .
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She was elected to borough council in 1987.
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He lost that election but was elected to the council four years later.
set
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His officials have concluded that the consultants under-estimated the cost of setting up large councils and over-estimated the cost of smaller ones.
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Three have already set up councils and another dozen are expected to do so by December.
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What we pressed him to do in Committee was to include in the Bill power to set up a funding council .
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The rate poundage is set by local councils and for Oxford in 1989-90 it is 291.1p in the pound.
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However there are no plans at present to set up an independent council to monitor the Government's use of statistics.
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A target of £3.5 million was set for the councils .
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Temporary agreements were signed setting up councils of heads of state and of heads of government.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the Privy Council
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a council meeting
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A complaints system is being set up to make it easier for residents to complain about the service that the council offers.
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Feltz is running for city council in the fall elections.
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She's been elected onto the city council .
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Stuart is on the Regional Arts Council .
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The club got a grant from the Sports Council to help pay for new changing rooms.
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The plan for the new housing development is now being considered by Essex County Council .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I kept on at the council , but it wasn't easy to get a council flat in those days.
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In addition to the palatial and leafy suburbs, there are areas of inner-city terraced housing awaiting redevelopment and large outlying council estates.
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Just last week pensioner Phillip Frampton died after a fire at his council flat in Swindon.
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One incumbent was returned to the council .
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The council say that shutters are not the answer.
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The balance between additions and cuts will depend on the financial climate and the political complexion of the council .
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The rankings guide Britain's four higher education funding councils in allocating resources.