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Example sentences for "councilmen"

Lexicographically close words:
councellors; councells; council; councillor; councillors; councilor; councilors; councils; counsail; counsaile
  1. Spitzkopf distributed the tickets on which were the names of the councilmen elect.

  2. However, if beer and pork determine the choice of councilmen and mayors, voters have no right to complain of misrule.

  3. The election of Common Councilmen for the four wards of Norwich, commenced on this date.

  4. The annual election of Common Councilmen commenced at Norwich.

  5. The election of common councilmen commenced in the week beginning March 28th.

  6. According to the Charter of the borough of Yarmouth, the Aldermen and Common Councilmen are annually to assemble and choose before they separate 'the most discrete' alderman to be Mayor.

  7. The mayor and councilmen shall receive such compensation as shall be voted them by the inhabitants of said town in legal meeting assembled.

  8. Under the provisions of this law all ward lines and divisions were abolished and five men--a mayor and four councilmen or commissioners are elected at large.

  9. That the mayor or a majority of the councilmen may call a meeting of the town council whenever in his or their opinion the same may be necessary.

  10. At that moment two Malay councilmen broke through Don's thin line of fighting deputies.

  11. A low muttering began among the trapped councilmen of Scorpia.

  12. One after another the furious councilmen gave up the struggle to nurse their swollen eyes.

  13. Aldermen and 12 Common Councilmen from the Corporate Body; and in the following year 3 Aldermen and 4 Councilmen, and placed others in their stead.

  14. Two of the five councilmen are for sale; two are honest men--and one is an uncertain quantity.

  15. Shall we say one thousand dollars per each for your three good councilmen and true, and for yourself that sedan of my niece's?

  16. If the guilty party takes refuge in a fortified castle, the Mayor and Councilmen shall notify the seigneur of the castle, or his lieutenant.

  17. These words of the messenger carried the exasperation of the Councilmen to its pitch.

  18. Great was also the pain felt by the Councilmen at the royal order to surrender to the bishop their banner, their seal and their treasury, and to tear down their Town Hall and its belfry.

  19. Profoundly preoccupied, he placed himself at the head of his militiamen, in order to escort the Mayor and the Councilmen to the Town Hall.

  20. Abdicate willingly your roles of Mayor, Councilmen and warriors.

  21. The Councilmen are elected by the inhabitants!

  22. One of these councilmen shall be elected Mayor by the suffrage of all those who shall have taken the oath of the Commune.

  23. The Councilmen had been the first to appear at the market-place, where they were soon joined by the Mayor.

  24. The Councilmen decided to take measures of resistance and safety.

  25. The day after the victory the Mayor, Councilmen and several other leading citizens, convened to consider the dangers of the situation.

  26. If the Mayor and Councilmen of the Commune require money for the use of the city, and raise a tax, they may levy the same on the inheritances and property of the townsmen, and on the sales and profits made in the city.

  27. Whenever the Mayor and the Councilmen shall desire to fortify the city, they shall be free to do so on whatever seigneur's territory it may be.

  28. Signed by all the councilmen before witnesses.

  29. No one of the church councilmen shall have authority to do anything which requires a decision by all, but what is needful to be done shall be considered and decided by all in common.

  30. The Councilmen were to have the oversight of the preservation and improvement of the church and parsonage.

  31. The Church Council consisted of the minister, the councilmen and wardens.

  32. In Sandel's time, 1702, new Church Wardens and Church Councilmen were installed, which suggests that these two offices were found in the time of Fabritius, so short a time previous.

  33. Should the Augustus Church be remembered by their last testaments by devout members with money or lands, or receive them in any other manner, then two church councilmen shall be elected, to whom such church property shall be entrusted.

  34. Under the old law provincial governors and councilmen were elected for four years and half of the council was renewed every two years.

  35. Our councilmen are elected at large, and we had assumed that any strength he might develop in the more prosperous residential districts would be overbalanced by losses in industrial neighborhoods.

  36. Barton broke his rule against talking through the newspapers by issuing a caustic statement imploring the infuriated councilmen to sue him for libel as they threatened to do.

  37. Tyope was delegate to the council, where he represented his clan; and the Koshare Naua, who also was a member of Shyuamo, not only belonged to the leading councilmen but was one of the religious heads!

  38. For the majority of the councilmen were so horror-stricken by the disclosures of Tyope and of the Koshare Naua, that they went to do penance with a zeal that could not fail to draw the attention of everybody around them.

  39. The councilmen glanced at them furtively from time to time.

  40. Then was it that councilmen came out as soon as breakfast was over to arrange private schemes for thwarting the aldermen; and that while the councilmen arranged, aldermen called and waited for Mr. E.

  41. Finally, the chief officers and councilmen of the city were removed, and others appointed by the district commander.

  42. Accordingly, you can rely for the accomplishment of your mission of liberation only upon yourself, and upon the councilmen and the town militia of Orleans.

  43. The councilmen themselves superintended the execution of the Maid's orders.

  44. The martial maid rode at the head of the column, escorted by several armed councilmen who had previously taken part in the defence of the town.

  45. A strong English garrison occupied the town of Troyes, whose councilmen were bitter partisans of Burgundy.

  46. The Burgundian councilmen were overthrown, a new set of municipal magistrates was set up and they immediately took measures against the English who entrenched themselves in a fort that dominated the town.

  47. Despite their mistrust of the captains, the councilmen failed to scent the trap laid for the Maid.

  48. With much difficulty, Joan and the councilmen obtained mercy for Gaucourt and his crew.

  49. She entered the house of Master James Boucher where the captains and councilmen were gathered.

  50. Joan had several times the day before insisted with the councilmen to see that about twenty barges, capable of containing each from fifty to sixty men be safely moored and ready at daybreak for the embarkation of the troops.

  51. And after we made Danforth and the five councilmen resign that night, and saw them aboard the east-bound the next morning, we made Littlefield wire the governor about what had happened.

  52. And he has had his councilmen pass laws to widen some streets and open new ones.

  53. The city was still without a Common Council, and it was not until the 26th November that the Court of Aldermen advised the mayor to issue his precept for an election of common councilmen to take place on the 28th.

  54. Seeing that the matter was of so great importance, each alderman was desired to take steps in conjunction with his deputy and common councilmen of his ward to get liberal contributions made towards the loan.

  55. Elections in Common Hall were thenceforth to be by the aldermen, common councilmen and "a like number of other honest men" of each ward, and not by the companies.

  56. Next Tuesday, at the suggestion of the old squire, the councilmen went to court of their own accord and gave information of what they had done.

  57. For his attention to the old teacher the new one was greatly praised; while he was blamed in the same degree for calling on the councilmen on a weekday, when he might have known they could not be found at home.

  58. So Dietegen went where some of the councilmen were seated and a few persons willing to take charge of the prisoner.

  59. The young councilmen of Ruechenstein, their new-won friends, rode out some little distance without the city gates to welcome them, and led them a bit crestfallen within.

  60. As a rule the councilmen were elected annually by the qualified voters, while the mayor was appointed by the colonial governor.

  61. The Mayor and the councilmen were at their conference table on the platform in front of the room.

  62. When the death of Mayor Hilliard became known, Sheriff Johnson called an immediate session of the councilmen and announced himself as Hilliard's successor.

  63. Mayor Hilliard and his councilmen struggled to work out a reasonable ration plan, based upon the ratio of supplies to number of consumers.

  64. Some councilmen looked at their neighbors and back again to the Sheriff.

  65. The councilmen in some places are elected from various city wards; in others they are elected by the town or city at large.

  66. It is composed of a mayor, and councilmen or commissioners who act also as heads of administrative departments.

  67. The burgomaster and councilmen were glad to have the chance to spare the life of the stalwart and expert marksman, and told him that he was free to go, providing he would no longer molest travelers in the forest.

  68. He made no reply, and the councilmen held a consultation and one of them went to him with another offer.


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