town-council

The idea is to give one another a helping hand, whether by providing an update on a town-council meeting or by recommending a plumber.

The Best In… 2011

Insurgents had made Hamman-al-Alil another no-go zone, destroying the town-council offices and killing the mayor's nephew, then cutting off his head and delivering it to the mayor.

The Coming Normalcy? 2006

He views the project as a potential disaster and worked with a local opposition group, filming town-council meetings and posting relevant snippets on the Internet.

Jobs Unwanted 2008

But don't expect that Web site to hire somebody to sit through town-council meetings and explain to you why your taxes will be going up.

All I Wanted for Christmas Was a Newspaper Paul Mulshine 2008

Insurgents had made Hamman-al-Alil another no-go zone, destroying the town-council offices and killing the mayor's nephew, then cutting off his head and delivering it to the mayor.

The Coming Normalcy? 2006

This display of attachment to England was not confined to the loyal and aristocratic city of Toronto; at Hamilton, a thriving commercial place, of suspected American tendencies, the town-council was assembled at the time the despatch was received, and instantly voted a sum for an illumination.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

Whether he was recaptured by the town-council, or is bolting at this hour through the United Kingdom, they know not.

The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices 2007

One morning, when the sun was so warm as to raise a steam from the south-eastern slopes of those flanking hills that looked so lovely above the old roofs, but made every low-chimneyed house in the town as smoky as Tophet, Barnet glanced from the windows of the town-council room for lack of interest in what was proceeding within.

Wessex Tales 2006

In the afternoon, Mr Wartabed and the Khoja Bashi, (representative member in the town-council,) of the Protestants, named Naseef er Reis, rode with us to the source of the Hhasbani river, which ought to be regarded as the origin of the Jordan, even though Banias lower down has been for ages recognised as such.

Byeways in Palestine James Finn

Thus in a letter of warning sent by him in December 1532 to the burgomaster and town-council of Münster, he classed Zwingli with Münzer and other heads of the Anabaptists, as a band of fanatics whom God had judged, and pointed out that whoever once followed Zwingli, Münzer, or the Anabaptists, would very easily be seduced into rebellion and attacks on civil government.

Life of Luther Julius Koestlin