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Example sentences for "municipal affairs"

  • We can understand now why the state has been unwilling to permit the same measure of democracy in municipal affairs that it has seen fit to employ for its own purposes.

  • The influence of the democratic movement was less marked, however, in the domain of municipal affairs.

  • Her administration of municipal affairs was so satisfactory that she was besought to accept a third term but declined.

  • Walker on the injustice of the property laws and the advantage of giving women the ballot in municipal affairs.

  • As this bill would give women only the right to vote in municipal affairs, it had many supporters who would not have favored full suffrage.

  • Hays, who was one of the most active men engaged in municipal affairs in Montreal in the early part of the nineteenth century, and to his energy the city was indebted for many civic improvements.

  • The citizens of Montreal, as already narrated, had had in view for many years under the British rule, the introduction of a responsible form of Home Rule in municipal affairs.

  • Eaton,--and the evidence these gentlemen exhibited before the committee on municipal affairs, at Albany, as to the wretched condition of the city health boards was damning.

  • I was also made a member of the committee on cities and villages, afterward known as the committee on municipal affairs, and of the committee on the library.

  • Name two good subjects for a debate drawn from athletics; two from some current academic question; two from local or municipal affairs.

  • Such are most questions of reform or change in school or college systems, in athletics, in municipal affairs, in short, most of the questions on which the average man after he leaves college is likely to be making arguments.

  • It would tend to interest the citizens intelligently in municipal affairs.

  • And so, if we are the natural housekeepers, the conservators of health and morals and civic pride, why not a woman at the head of municipal affairs?

  • Even her intimate friends were surprised to note the accuracy with which she comprehended the city's needs and the insight which she had gained into the existing state of municipal affairs.

  • The former is public-spirited and has always taken a deep interest in municipal affairs, public honors having come to him in his election to the office of alderman of the city of Montreal, in which capacity he has served since 1902.

  • He is perhaps even more widely known because of his connection with efforts put forth in opposition to misrule in municipal affairs.

  • Thenceforth he played a prominent part in municipal affairs.

  • But after Michaelmas 1572 he took a less active part in municipal affairs; he grew irregular in his attendance at the council meetings, and signs were soon apparent that his luck had turned.

  • On all side agitators proclaimed the right of the workers to have a voice in the organization of trade, and the right of the common burghers to share in the control of municipal affairs.

  • He took an active interest in municipal affairs, contributed liberally to the construction and improvement of the public highways, and was justly regarded as a public benefactor.

  • He took a conspicuous part in municipal affairs, and for six years sat in the Town Council.

  • He is President of the Roman Catholic Literary Association of Brockville, and takes a warm interest in municipal affairs.

  • He then began to take part in municipal affairs.

  • In Natal and Cape Colony women taxpayers exercise the right to vote in municipal affairs.

  • Laurie Poster held before the Political Equality League in Chicago, after the women of Chicago had waged a vigorous campaign for the right to vote in municipal affairs.

  • Women do not possess the right to vote in parliamentary elections; but, if taxpayers, they can vote in municipal affairs in the whole of Great Britain and Ireland.

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

  • Bond-floating companies from other cities were brought in, and after an examination of the books threw up their hands in horror at the crudest muddle they had ever found in any investigation of municipal affairs.

  • It is plain that my removal is deemed necessary by Ruef and Gallagher to prevent an honest, searching investigation of conditions that prevail in municipal affairs in San Francisco.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "municipal affairs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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