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Example sentences for "council"

Lexicographically close words:
coulombs; coult; councell; councellors; councells; councillor; councillors; councilmen; councilor; councilors
  1. A council of citizens was called at headquarters, and the verdict went forth in the never-to-be-forgotten Orders No.

  2. Mrs. Colfax flew in the face of all the known laws of nursing, until Virginia was driven to desperation, and held a council of war with Dr.

  3. A committee of the council, favourable to the saloon interests, had recommended that the ordinance be not acted upon by council but referred to the people at a distant election, a proposition wholly illegal.

  4. Politics Iraq is a sovereign state with a democratically elected Council of Representatives.

  5. He served as Chairman of the Domestic Policy Council and of the National Drug Policy Board.

  6. The Badr Brigade is affiliated with the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), which is led by Abdul Aziz al-Hakim.

  7. The issue of Iran's nuclear programs should continue to be dealt with by the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council plus Germany.

  8. The magistrates and the town council vowed vengeance.

  9. Only keep my council till--till I have collected my thoughts.

  10. School Board Council of Education; Board of Education; Board of Studies, Prefect of Studies; Textbook Committee; propaganda.

  11. In 1457 we find the Council of Ten attacking the Doge himself, by requiring the abdication of Francis Foscari.

  12. It was only under the Capetians that the Royal Council took a permanent footing, or even assembled at stated periods.

  13. The Greater Council only assembled in cases of urgency and for extraordinary and very important purposes, the Smaller Council assembled every month, and its decisions were registered.

  14. In 817, the Council of Aix-la-Chapelle decided that such delicate nourishment could scarcely be called mortification as understood by the teaching of the Church.

  15. I was sent for by the Council last evening, to examine all the models which have been received.

  16. The influence of our house is deserting us; you have not attended the council lately--there is a majority organizing against us.

  17. All they could do, therefore, was to take charge of the wonderful model, and carry it to the Court-house, where it would have to remain until the decision of the Council should be proclaimed.

  18. I have directions from the Grand Master and Council to keep a strict watch over him.

  19. And the people tore up the benches, drove back the burgher guard; some of the boldest dashed on the platform; the Grand Council had to escape, carrying the stranger with them.

  20. Well, I was selected by the Council here as one of the judges.

  21. The day at last arrived for the triennial exhibition of the productions of Dantzic art, on which day the council had agreed that the prize for the clock was to be adjudged.

  22. However, neither the man nor his production will find great favor in the council while I have influence there; he may exaggerate his merits.

  23. Its officials from treasurer to scavenger were appointed by the common council and obliged to serve or pay certain fines.

  24. The Spanish council which decreed long ago that "if it had pleased God that .

  25. A brief council of war soon settled the all-important question of commissariat.

  26. Then a council of headmen was held, chiefly to discuss my visit; this lasted some hours.

  27. Before the Jewish council of the Sanhedrim.

  28. The journeys in connection with the council at Jerusalem, going and returning.

  29. Who attended the Council at Jerusalem (Acts 15.

  30. The church among the Gentiles, from the Council at Jerusalem, A.

  31. By comparing the four accounts we find that there was first an examination before the high priest and such of the council as could be gathered (Mark 14.

  32. After examination before the high priests and the Jewish council Jesus was led to Pilate for another trial (Luke 23.

  33. On that night, which was the 12th July, he held a council of officers.

  34. Meantime, a council of officers was held in Egmont's tent.

  35. These bodies themselves were three in number: a state and privy council and one of finance.

  36. His Majesty ordered the governor of Philipinas and the bishop of Nueva Caceres to make no innovation in the spiritual administration of that district until his royal Council should provide what was suitable.

  37. A council of war was called to discuss the matter.

  38. That allegation was sent by decree of the superior government to Don Diego Antonio de Viga, of the Council of his Majesty and his fiscal in the Audiencia of Manìla.

  39. Their recourse to court had the result that the parties [in the matter] were referred by the Council of the Indias to this royal Audiencia.

  40. At a fo'c's'le council held on the 3rd of March, they determined to put the helm up, and to return to the North Sea.

  41. At the council aboard Captain Sawkins' ship, it was given out, to all the assembled buccaneers, that the Spaniards had made peace with the Darien Indians.

  42. For this act he had the sealed authority of the Council of Jamaica.

  43. All of this company would gather in the council chamber, where a rich planter sat at a table with some paper scrolls in front of him.

  44. They were all fetched aboard, "to their great comfort and our content," and a council was held forthwith.

  45. When they came within the sight of land, a council was called, to which the captains of the vessels went.

  46. These three well-known names, honourably known names, belonged to the municipal council of the town.

  47. Dupuytren had predicted, preventative arrests were being continued; but, on 14 February, the Council Chamber found the seconds of M.

  48. I mean the council of ministers, had met during the day.

  49. The medical wisdom of this many-headed council culminated in the cry: "A glass of water!

  50. Often, too, these men are asked into the house and intimate council is held with them--especially when husband and servants are busy in the fields.

  51. There was apparent novelty in the permission given by the Commune to tenants not to pay their rent; but this eminently popular measure had been anticipated by the Council of Union in the days of the League.

  52. The hall arranged in 1795 for the Council of the Five Hundred was afterwards occupied by the Legislative Body of the Empire, and again, under the Restoration, by the Chamber of Deputies.

  53. Prepared by the Mansion House Council on the Dwellings of the Poor.

  54. In 1795 its principal reception-rooms were transformed into a hall for the Council of the Five Hundred, and it was at the same time enlarged.

  55. In 1643 a council was held under the presidency of the Prince de Condé, at which it was determined to rebuild the church, which was too small for the requirements of the neighbourhood and, above all, was falling into ruins.

  56. Young D'Arlincourt became one of Napoleon's chamberlains, and afterwards held some post in connection with the Council of State.

  57. The prince requested each member of his improvised council to give his opinion as to what course should be pursued in the emergency.

  58. First, Muse of Cymri, name the Council Three.

  59. The subject of the council was the desire of the Indian Bureau to throw open to white settlement a half of the reservation.

  60. Like a shaken kaleidoscope the council broke up.

  61. He had not expected such a sum, and everywhere about the council his uneasy eyes showed him chiefs and talking men drawing out bundles of notes.

  62. VI The day of the council found the population of the island crowded into the capital.

  63. She doubled up her fist, and such were her Amazonian proportions and the determination in her face that Grief knew the council would be called.

  64. If I'm not mistaken, in three days we'll have a national council or a revolution.

  65. He, the Feathers of the Sun, would tell them why, to their faces, in grand council assembled.

  66. Tui Tulifau, with Sepeli at his side and surrounded by his convivial chiefs, sat at the head of the council in the big compound.

  67. His predecessors, colleagues, and successors in the council usually held office for two years.

  68. By the advice of the Council negotiations were opened with the Scots.

  69. A part of those who were hostile to the council withdrew to Upper Egypt, others quitted altogether the dominions of the empire and passed over to Africa and among the Arabs, where all religions were tolerated.

  70. The whole imposture was speedily discovered at Lisbon; the Council of Madrid condemned the legate Saavedra to be flogged and sent to the galleys for ten years; but the most admirable circumstance was, that Pope Paul IV.

  71. We have already observed that under the reign of the empress Irene the worship of images was re-established and confirmed by the second Council of Nice.

  72. It is most likely that Cecil and the other members of the council gave no credit to the said Baron Hunsdon; but if the fictitious baron had said the same to six common citizens, they would probably have believed him.

  73. The general council of gods was held in a spacious hall which lay beyond the Milky Way; for it was but reasonable that the gods should have a hall in the air, as men had town-halls and courts of assembly upon earth.

  74. A Jesuit of the name of Aubert performed one of these missions to Colmar, and compelled the advocate-general of the sovereign council to burn at his feet his copy of "Bayle," which had cost him no less than fifty crowns.

  75. In the council at which this was determined, the cruel Moslems, dead to the love that fathers should bear their children, had determined to sacrifice their twenty sons, the hostages who had been left with King Charles.

  76. While they sat there in council there appeared among them a herald bearing the white flag of peace.

  77. Everywhere he did his best not only to secure consent to the Papal plan of holding the Council in an Italian town, but also, as he had been instructed, to combat the dangerous though popular opposite plan of a German national Council.

  78. The opinion of the Elector prevailed in the Council of the Princes and among the preachers assembled at Schmalkalden.

  79. Mantua as the town where the Council was to be held, Paul III.

  80. In its outspoken rejection of the Council the Conference was more logical than Luther and his theological counsellors.

  81. The writing begins: “The Pope with his wretched Council is like a cat with her kittens,” and concludes (p.

  82. The President and Vice-President of the Council were the two Norreys, John and Thomas, two of the most gallant of a gallant family.

  83. He was in Dublin and on the spot, as Clerk of the Council of Munster.

  84. When Ralegh and the "Somersetshire men" were dividing among them the County of Cork, the Clerk of the Council was remembered by some of his friends.

  85. They show that from first to last, in principle and practice, in council and in act, the Tamerlane system was believed in, and carried out without a trace of remorse or question as to its morality.


  86. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "council" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    administration; admonition; advisory; advocacy; alliance; assemblage; assembly; assignation; association; audience; axis; ball; band; bargaining; bench; bloc; board; body; brass; brawl; briefing; cabinet; cadre; caucus; caution; caveat; chamber; coalition; college; colloquium; combination; combine; commission; committee; conclave; concourse; confab; confederacy; confederation; conference; confrontation; consultation; convention; convocation; cooperative; corps; council; counsel; court; dance; date; diet; direction; directorate; directory; discussion; divan; executive; exhortation; federation; festivity; fete; forum; gang; gathering; group; grouping; guidance; house; housewarming; huddle; idea; instruction; interview; judicature; judiciary; junta; league; legislature; levee; machine; management; meet; meeting; ministry; mob; monition; municipal; negotiation; opinion; palaver; panel; parley; parliament; partnership; party; plenum; powwow; proposal; quorum; rally; reception; remonstrance; rendezvous; ring; seance; session; sitting; society; soiree; staff; suggestion; summit; symposium; syndicate; synod; thought; tribunal; turnout; union; warning


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    council fire; council held; council meeting