Maybe it wasn't meant to be that you would become Flushing's next Council Member the «easy» way — by winning the Democratic Primary. (queenscampaigner.com)
I wish I could be like them, but I know if I win the lottery I'll be flinging half the contents of my house onto the nature strip next council throw out. (housegoeshome.com)
-- though of course we don't even know that much about the future: The next Council may be summoned to Minneapolis or Peking, it may have a regenerate world at its feet, it may consist only of half - a-dozen wild - eyed unshaven men in a cellar. (firstthings.com)