• It is true that a more representative council would not necessarily be more coherent than the present one.

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  • LaCie will initiate the information and consultation process required by its employee representative council in relation to the contemplated transaction, in accordance with French law.

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  • Sir Irvine was vice-president of the Sheffield Jewish Congregation and Centre, life president of Sheffield Jewish Representative Council, and a former national vice-chairman of the Maccabi sports and youth organisation.

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  • Lisbon is silent on the question of how the council president and high representative will avoid getting in each other's way.

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  • Dozens of countries have recognized the Syrian National Council as a legitimate representative of the Syrian opposition, though many members of the group's leadership are expatriates.

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  • Libya had threatened to reveal more about the "grave secret" if France went ahead with its decision to recognise the rebel Transitional National Council as the legitimate representative of the Libyan people.

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  • It is not the lack of a high representative or Council president, but a chronic lack of troops and helicopters that explains the woeful inadequacy of the European contribution to the conflict in Afghanistan.

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  • After a shaky start, Mosul's self-appointed leader, Mishaan Jabouri, has secured both American and local approval by establishing a large, broadly representative local council that is expected to elect a new governor this week.

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  • It is a prestigious role, chosen by the council to be their non-political representative on ceremonial and other occasions and to run council meetings.

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  • It's hard to imagine any local representative on any council having to take a more important decision.

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  • They hired a barrister to represent their case at the planning appeal, alongside the council's own legal representative.

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  • Ilham Aliyev is already vice-president of the ruling party, deputy head of the State Oil Company and director of Azerbaijan's Olympic Committee, as well as being Azerbaijan's representative at the Council of Europe.

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  • First of all, it didn't even occur to me to raise the problem with my local councillor, who is after all my democratically elected representative on the council, and who might well have been the first port of call in the past.

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  • The government landed on the Muslim Council of Britain as the most representative organisation it could find.

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  • John Cooper, a leading criminal barrister and representative of the Bar Council, told the BBC the current law means "it is all down to 12 people on a jury deciding on the facts what is reasonable".

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  • The record attendance attracted local leaders including Houston Mayor Annise Parker, former Mayor Pro Tem Gordon Quan, San Antonio City Council Member Elisa Chan, State Representative Gene Wu, and U.S. Representatives Sheila Jackson Lee and Al Green.

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  • The only Arab representative on the UN Security Council, Syria, backed the new UN resolution, although it looked likely to abstain until the last minute.

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  • Roger Hollingworth, Conservative leader of Bromsgrove District Council and the local authority's representative on the police and crime panel, admitted Mr Longmore has not done anything wrong legally in appointing Barry Sheldon.

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  • The first task may come next week, when European leaders choose candidates for the two top jobs being created by Lisbon: the president of the European Council and a beefed-up high representative for foreign policy.

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  • At all three stages, the allotment site representative carries out an inspection and the council also visits the plot.

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  • Until quite recently, its negotiating positions, if it had any, were concocted by the permanent representative in Brussels on the eve of council meetings.

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  • He remained an MP after quitting the government when Mr Blair left office and will replace Manchester Central MP Tony Lloyd as the British representative on the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.

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  • The intention was that the 12-hour ultimatum should stand whatever the Council decided, for when it met the British representative had instructions that caused a British veto to be used there for the first time.

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  • Requests the Secretary General to report to the Security Council on the progress of the efforts of the Special Representative as soon as possible.

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  • Robert Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative, served on Enron's advisory council.

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  • Jan Kleijssen, Director of Standard Setting in the Directorate General of Human Rights and Legal Affairs of the Council of Europe, and William Horsley, Media Freedom Representative, Association of European Journalists, will also speak.

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  • Other coalition ambassadors -- in Paris, London, Washington and the representative to the nations in the Gulf Cooperation Council -- operate without a formal embassy building, according to Sarah Karkour with the coalition's media office.

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  • Susan Rice, America's representative at the UN, endorsed a unanimous Security Council call to create a Palestinian state.

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  • Permanent Representative of Myanmar U Than Swe told the Security Council the country planned to grant amnesty to prisoners.

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  • If an individual council is unelected, it is easy for others to question how representative it is of the community it claims to serve, whatever the reality of the situation may be.

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