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Example sentences for "municipal"

Lexicographically close words:
munere; muneribus; mung; mungoose; munia; municipale; municipalities; municipality; municipalization; municipals
  1. Some of these were responses to speeches of welcome made by municipal officials on railway platforms, or were replies to toasts at luncheons and dinners.

  2. If a smaller number of citizens could raise the money for a municipal opera house, there should be no trouble in getting funds for a building devoted to a far more extensive public benefit, like an art gallery.

  3. The new Municipal Statute sanctioned the norm of one-third for "non-Christians," and reaffirmed the ineligibility of Jews to the post of burgomaster.

  4. Under the old law, the number of Jewish aldermen in the municipal administration had been limited to one-third of the total number of aldermen, aside from the prohibition barring the Jews from the office of burgomaster [1].

  5. Notwithstanding these restrictions, the Jews played a conspicuous part in municipal self-government, and could boast of a number of prominent municipal workers.

  6. This activity of the Jews went against the grain of the inquisitorial trio, Pobyedonostzev, Durnovo, and Plehve, and they decided to bar the Jews completely from participation in the municipal elections.

  7. A committee consisting of representatives of the municipal administration, four Christians and three Jews, was appointed to inquire into the causes of the disorders.

  8. The municipal counterreform of 1892 dealt a severe political blow to Russian Jewry.

  9. The reactionary, anti-democratic "Municipal Regulation" of 1892 proclaimed publicly this new Jewish disfranchisement.

  10. Edinburgh, with which it is now incorporated for municipal purposes; has a fine esplanade and promenade pier, and manufactures of pottery, bricks, and bottles.

  11. The commonwealth fully proclaims its being in the group of municipal buildings which surround the irregular space which forms the municipal centre of the city.

  12. But there is no grand church, no grand municipal palace; the castle itself is not what on such a site it ought to be.

  13. In the other view, from the wall on the other side, the municipal tower is the leading object, which it certainly would not have been if the bell-tower of the duomo had ever been carried up.

  14. Because the cathedral is later, because the general aspect of the main street is later, the idea is suggested that nothing is left but the municipal palace.

  15. Old or new, rebuilt or simply repaired, there is nothing very wonderful in the municipal palace of Treviso; but in either case it is pleasing as an example of the genuine native style of Italy.

  16. Capua now became a Roman colony after having had no municipal constitution for one hundred and fifty-two years, when the city with all its dependencies was made a prefecture administered by a prefect of Rome.

  17. Notwithstanding this pompous eulogy, poor Erasmus, stood in the centre of the market-place like a municipal guard, excites our compassion.

  18. The monarchical régime has not extinguished the ancient municipal spirit, which frustrated the efforts of all those great states that tried to absorb Holland.

  19. Bradley, also of our Executive Board, is Chairman of the Sanitation Department of the Women's Municipal League, and has led in the fight for exterminating the typhoid fly.

  20. Indeed the germ of the true woman's movement lies in the activities of such organizations as education societies, playground associations, municipal leagues, and so forth, which are only in their first stages of usefulness.

  21. To these must now be added a copy of the larger issue, wanting five leaves, presented in 1465 by Rene d'Anjou to the Franciscans of La Baumette-les-Angiers and now in the municipal library at Angers.

  22. At Strassburg Gutenberg remained till about 1446, and legal and municipal records, so far as we can trust to their authenticity, offer us some tantalizing glimpses of his career there.

  23. They are persons known to the municipal laws of the States which they inhabit as well as to the laws of nature.

  24. If slavery in the District concerns only the inhabitants and Congress, so does all municipal regulations.

  25. It took it out of its former category of municipal law and local life, adopted it as a national institution, spread around it the broad and sufficient shield of national law, and thus gave to slavery a national existence.

  26. They are persons known to the municipal laws of the states which they inhabit as well as to the laws of nature.

  27. It took it out of its former category of municipal law and local life; adopted it as a national institution, spread around it the broad and sufficient shield of national law, and thus gave to slavery a national existence.

  28. These proceedings were virtually authorized and encouraged by the presence of deputies from the Commune, wearing the municipal scarf, but nominally charged to select and deliver those who were imprisoned for debt.

  29. In the summer of 1792 the executive power of the state was in effect wrested from the nominal authority, the Legislative Assembly, by a body of men styled the Commune, who had possessed themselves of the municipal government of Paris.

  30. Nevertheless, municipal government represents the principle of control and stands in the background as the preserver of the interests of all the people.

  31. The police department is but one of several boards or official departments for the management of municipal affairs.

  32. State and municipal governments have appointed commissions and departments on housing, fire protection has been provided, better sanitary conditions have been enforced, and hopelessly bad buildings have been destroyed.

  33. It is the training-school of municipal society.

  34. Larger questions of immigration, industrial management, and municipal administration will be studied and gradually solved by the united wisdom of city, state, and nation.

  35. Moreover, it must be remembered that what the Italians then understood by freedom was municipal autonomy controlled by ruling houses in the interest of the few.

  36. Municipal autonomy, implying the right of the municipality to rule its conquests for its own particular profit, was the dominant idea.

  37. At the same time, while Lombardy and Tuscany were establishing their municipal liberties, a sympathetic movement began in Southern Italy, which resulted in the conquest of Apulia, Calabria, and Sicily by the Normans.

  38. The indirect restraints which a calmer period of municipal vitality had placed upon tyrannic ambition, were removed by the leveling of classes and the presentation of an equal surface to the builder of the palace-dome of monarchy.

  39. From this date Milan takes the lead in the contests for municipal independence.

  40. The history of each is the history of the development of certain specific qualities, which modified the type of municipal organization common to them all.

  41. The rivalries to which this system of municipal government gave rise were a chief source of internal weakness to the commonwealths.

  42. Papal exile at Avignon, the Guelf party became the rallying-point of municipal independence, with its headquarters in Florence.

  43. We have already seen that their conception of municipal independence made a narrow oligarchy of enfranchised burghers lords of the city, which in its turn oppressed the country and the subject burghs of its domain.

  44. He was invariably a foreigner, elected for one year, intrusted with summary jurisdiction in all matters of dispute, exercising the power of life and death, and disposing of the municipal militia.

  45. At the same time the municipal struggles of Commune against Commune lost none of their virulence.

  46. He was the youngest judge in the municipal court, and every one liked him.

  47. Municipal court judges would stay bachelors, if they knew how much trouble their modest, retiring brides-to-be made us.

  48. Several picturesque kiosks and artistic structures with seats have been built for the benefit of the public, and usually during the winter season open air concerts are given within the grounds once or twice a week by the Municipal Band.

  49. The Municipal Band of Havana, with some eighty artists, under the direction of Guillermo Tomas, furnishes music, either in Central Park or the Malecon, several evenings each week.

  50. It seems incredible to us that the women here have not even the School and Municipal suffrage except in a very few States.

  51. Miss Addams told with much feeling of the recent campaign for the Municipal franchise, the objections they had to meet, the character of the opposition and how hard it was for women to be patient.

  52. To the large body of women in our city who have to shift for themselves as completely as men do Municipal suffrage would mean a higher rating industrially, a fairer compensation for their labor and more possible living conditions.

  53. Women cannot stop either at the bottom or the top by asking for Municipal suffrage.

  54. Declaring that she did not approve of war, she said that nevertheless whenever there was a fight for municipal reform in New York she was in the thick of it.

  55. Municipal suffrage was given by the Legislature to the women of Orlando, Fla.

  56. Suffrage in school or municipal elections cannot give us a full and fair test of the value of equal suffrage or of woman's willingness to participate.

  57. Similarly, the north extremity of the Municipal Building rests upon the edge of still another granite bowl--the sub-surface of that same Collect Pond upon which the New York boys used to skate a century or more ago.

  58. This skyscraper is the new Municipal Building.

  59. The men from Glasgow and from Manchester are used to municipal street railroads and such schemes and the New England town-meeting ideas, which were the products of Anglo-Saxon spirit, come home to rest in English hearts.

  60. She has not gone deeply into what she calls "the fads of municipal government" but she is a town which offers security and comfort, as well as pretty broad measure of opportunity, to her residents.

  61. Now you stand with the young engineer at the topmost outlook of the tower in the Municipal Building and look down on the busy town.

  62. To provide offices for the greater part of the city's official machinery, this towering Municipal Building has just been erected.

  63. In appearance the new Municipal Building is a gray-stone tower twenty-five stories in height and surmounted by a tower cupola an additional fifteen stories in height.

  64. The municipal government of New York is a vast and somewhat unwieldy machine that can hardly be housed within a dozen giant structures.

  65. All the housetops were glittering with the sun as they passed the ranks of the Municipal cavalry.

  66. And it was especially fortunate that this whole subject came before the Convention unembarrassed with a previous choice of place by the old Congress, or with any steps concerning municipal jurisdiction which they might have taken, or omitted.

  67. The publicists of Christendom are universally agreed, that independent nations are under no positive obligation to support the institutions, or to enforce the municipal laws, of each other.

  68. This difficulty seems to have been felt at a later period; for the ordinance of 1784 only directs a purchase of the land, and is silent upon the subject of municipal jurisdiction.

  69. Ten minutes later, he was down at the municipal garbage-barge, moored to the bulkhead of piles along the bank of the Skookum.

  70. For that reason an English municipal taxpayer is called a /ratepayer/.

  71. In 1912, for example, the Department of Education of New York City warned all the municipal high-school teachers to combat it.

  72. This man you had the conversation with down at the municipal hall, at the office of the chief of police, did he appear to be connected with the office there in any way?

  73. He gave one four or five days afterwards, at municipal hall, and at first he denied that he was the man at all--he never had seen me.

  74. In this tendency to municipal extravagance he saw one of the gravest menaces to property.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "municipal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    municipal affairs; municipal borough; municipal corporations; municipal elections; municipal government; municipal officer; municipal ownership; municipal suffrage; municipal trading