Sentences with phrase «only elected bodies»

It was no small sacrifice for residents when city leaders voted to dissolve the school board in 2007 — dismantling one of the city's only elected bodies.

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the number of the elect is indeed small, only 2 of the original slaves in Egypt made it into the promised land, Joshua and Caleb, the rest were scattered (their bodies) in the desert.

It looks to me as if he's trying to avoid falling across Russ's body, elects not to use his right hand which would have crushed Russ, and tries to use only his left hand which skids out.

«When elected officials, like Daniel Halloran, not only corrupt themselves but, unseen, corrupt the body politic from within they undermine the public's confidence in a representative form of government,» said U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara in a statement.

The legislative process of the EU may be generally simplified in this way: the European Commission, i.e. a body of supposedly independent experts appointed by the European Council (see, the 28, soon 27, heads of State or government of its Member States) and approved by the European Parliament (the only institutions directly elected by EU citizens), has the initiative to table legislation.

4.72 The Committee recommends that the NIC be a temporary body, to exist only until a proper national, elected representative body is in place.