1.   Disputes were often taken to a village council, which attempted to bring about an amicable settlement.

2.   Even the remotest village councils felt their heavy hand, and the municipalities of Chambery and the other towns lost their autonomy.

3.   Unemployed workers staged strikes, and hungry peasants in many areas seized estates and took over village councils.

4.   A meeting of the village council was convened.

5.   Gradually, the village councils are learning to catch the attention of developers, too.

6.   He announced it to the village council last summer, recalls New Vienna Mayor Richard E. Brown.

7.   It was part of a broader constitutional amendment intended to institutionalize democratically elected village councils and decentralize authority to them.

8.   The movement showed that it was able to maintain peace, and at first, Qadir said, it ruled collectively through village councils and did not repress women.

9.   The village council, made up of Arabs and Jews, continued to meet and do its work.

10.   Village defense councils, mostly made up of Hindus, were armed by the state.