How to Use council in a Sentence

council

noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], 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 | [e-mail], 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
• Smith was elected to the city council in 1995, serving three consecutive, four-year terms.
  — Jenny Wagnon Courts, ABC News, 7 Nov. 2023
• While about a hundred hotels had been built, all in close proximity to the beach, the city council had wisely reserved the beach along Ocean Drive be used for the public.
  — Allen Lockshin, Miami Herald, 30 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024