Sentences with phrase «sometimes council members»

Sometimes council members can be placed in a position of conflict through the actions of others, namely lobbyists.

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A dog attacks, and city - council members want the city attorney to react — sometimes by drafting an ordinance that restricts or outlaws a specific breed of dog, most often the maligned pit bull terrier.1 After such an ordinance is passed, authorities must then ferret out and kill any dog that slightly resembles a pit bull terrier.
Sense About Science, which listed Ridley as a member of its Advisory Council, itself warned against such review processes, saying: «sometimes organisations or individuals claim to have put their studies through peer review when, on inspection, they have only shown it to some colleagues.
Not only that, if one of «their» members is in trouble they don't investigate it, they pass it over to the Council to investigate, while the Council's backlog gets even longer and we wait sometimes months or years for a result.
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