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council

[koun-suhl] / ˈkaʊn səl /


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The council said the affected road would be closed until it could deliver a "safe, engineered solution" and warned that further movement was likely to happen underneath it, making it "extremely unsafe".

From BBC

Partisanship, the first president observed, “serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Use the tool, using data from property portal Zoopla, to see how the cost of privately rented homes has risen in your council area in England, Scotland and Wales.

From BBC

Late last year the council agreed to take forward the by-law as the "only effective way forward", having ruled out other options.

From BBC

An interim council now rules Iran while the country seeks a successor to Khamenei.

From The Wall Street Journal