Example sentences of "the council of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1970s the Community was preoccupied with enlargement of the Community , institutional crises such as the Luxembourg accords , following the refusal of France to accept qualified majority ruling in the Council of Minsters , frequent budgetary difficulties and differences of view as to how the Community should be financed which resulted in very little progress towards the achievement of a single market . |
| 2 | The polls show the party up and Mulroney down , ’ said Maude Barlow , chairwoman of the Council of Canadians , a longtime opponent of Mr Mulroney 's trade policies . |
| 3 | The spokesman said the Council of Mayors of Arab Towns and Villages refused to accept the Bosnians even after it was given the text of a message from the vice president of Bosnia approving the flight . |
| 4 | According to the ministerial reasons given to the Bill this feature is supposed to be a profit-making company with substantial own financial resources solely consisting of corporate members and governed by the council of directors . |
| 5 | ‘ The Council of Guardians , ’ Benstede replied wearily , ‘ has called a meeting of the Great Council . |
| 6 | Despite the Council of Guardians the different lords are levying troops and fortifying castles , preparing for war if peace fails . |
| 7 | Even so , the Council of Guardians were intent on keeping the peace ; weapons were forbidden and royal serjeants-at-arms were placed in groups in the shadowy recesses of the hall . |
| 8 | Moreover , Corbett realised that if de Craon knew he was asking questions it was only a matter of time before the Council of Guardians intervened and either put a stop to his activities or expelled him from the country . |
| 9 | We bear warrants from the Council of Guardians of Scotland and yet you ignore us . |
| 10 | However , the Council of Guardians re-submitted it to the Majlis on Jan. 24 , calling for revisions to be made to it . |
| 11 | It was believed that the inclusion in the plan of provisions for the use of foreign loans and for a more liberal market policy was the source of the Council of Guardians ' complaint [ see also p. 37333 ] . |
| 12 | The bill , which was ratified by the Council of Guardians two days later , followed approval of US legislation allowing US forces to arrest " terrorists " anywhere in the world [ see p. 37407 ] . |
| 13 | These accusations related to controversial new changes implemented in July , requiring candidates for election to the Assembly to be vetted by the Council of Guardians . |
| 14 | In what was seen as an effort to halt allegations of political rigging , which culminated in heated exchanges and fist fights on the floor of the majlis on Oct. 2-3 , the Council of Guardians issued a statement on Oct. 3 declaring that " nothing , apart from the law and the Shariah , influenced our opinion " . |
| 15 | This " radical " group had ceased to be the predominant voice in other political institutions — such as the Council of Guardians and the Assembly of Experts — but had continued to command a majority of some 60 per cent in the outgoing Majlis . |
| 16 | The Majlis now had 268 members , the results in two single-member constituencies having been declared invalid by the Council of Guardians ; re-runs for these two seats would be held by means of mid-term by-elections . |
| 17 | The secretary-general of the Council of Guardians , Ayatollah Rezvani , told Iranian television on May 7 that of candidates who had been disqualified in the pre-election screening , some 80 per cent had been rejected by the executive committees and some 20 per cent by the Council of Guardians itself . |
| 18 | The secretary-general of the Council of Guardians , Ayatollah Rezvani , told Iranian television on May 7 that of candidates who had been disqualified in the pre-election screening , some 80 per cent had been rejected by the executive committees and some 20 per cent by the Council of Guardians itself . |
| 19 | When it came to electing a successor to the deposed Archbishop Fitzherbert at Richmond ( North Riding ) on 24 July 1147 , Bishop William opted for Henry Murdac [ q.v. ] , favourite of the Yorkshire reformers , against King Stephen 's candidate ; presumably it was Murdac who released him from the suspension he incurred for failing to attend the Council of Reims in March 1148 . |
| 20 | The amendments agreed in December 1988 duly provided that while the Council of the Union should concentrate upon economic , diplomatic and other matters affecting the USSR as a whole , the Council of Nationalities should particularly concern itself with the interests of all ethnic groups within the framework of the Soviet multinational state . |
| 21 | He looked at my work and said I had talent , but that I needed " earnest practice in drawing " , to which I wholly agree : He also said he would be glad to take me as his " chela " but that my name and work must go before the council of professors of the Academy , which meets next Thursday , 17th inst. and that if they accepted me I could start work on the following Monday , 21st inst . |
| 22 | It is unnecessary for the purposes of this judgment to set out in any detail the content of these articles : it is sufficient to say that they question the propriety of certain investments made by the council of moneys in its superannuation fund , with Mr. Bookbinder as the prime mover , in three deals with Mr. Oyston or companies controlled by him . |
| 23 | It is issued in the form of a Memorandum of Guidance , and follows discussions between representatives of the Scottish Office , the Faculty of Advocates , this Society and the Scottish Committee of the Council of Tribunals . |
| 24 | Rejected moves to make the European Parliament the principal legislative body of the EC , and transform the Council of Ministers into a consultative body with no powers of veto over the parliament . |
| 25 | He predicts , however , that the proposal would be opposed by most member states when it comes before the Council of Ministers . |
| 26 | The new rules still fall short of the ‘ positive consent system ’ proposed by the European Commission and agreed by the Council of Ministers last month . |
| 27 | One problem will undoubtedly be the growing demands of the European Parliament , backed by Chancellor Kohl and President Mitterrand , to be given a bigger say with the Council of Ministers in setting broad Community economic objectives and in holding a future EC central bank to account . |
| 28 | His blueprint for evolving ‘ a genuine parliamentary democracy ’ will be discussed at a preparatory conference next spring which the European parliament will hold with the Council of Ministers and the bureaucratic Commission . |
| 29 | There is also a suggestion that the Council of Ministers meet in public when it is acting as a legislative body , a suggestion which some parliamentarians first attribute to Mr Tony Benn in his days as Energy Secretary . |
| 30 | This would allow the council of ministers and the putative EC central bank to move ahead with the supra-national second and third stages of the three-stage European monetary union ( EMU ) strategy of the European Commission president , Mr Jacques Delors , at , or very soon after , the beginning of 1993 . |