1.   An interstate council was to be established to monitor relations between the states and central government.

2.   Hence, the argument runs, even without central financial control most local councils would have been providing similar levels of services.

3.   His five provincial councils were to be appointed rather than indirectly elected and concerned primarily with intergovernmental relations.

4.   In my area the local district council is Labour controlled.

5.   In the present case the council were concerned with what appeared to be a proliferation of illegal Sunday trading.

6.   Paradoxically, community councils are an insidious form of planning since they stem indirectly from the dominant ideology.

7.   People dump rubbish in the lanes, and the council is slow to clean it up.