executive council

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• The executive branch consisted of a governor and an executive council elected from and by the House of Assembly on the first day of the legislative session.

  Academic text (2009)

• Hanley, the president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, sits on the AFL-CIO executive council, the American labor movement's top decision-making body.

  Blog text (27)

• She is on the Executive Council of Hong Kong.

• The executive council could note its objections to measures presented to it, but also had no power to veto legislation.

  Academic text (2009)

• The governor and his executive council, meeting that same day, curtly ordered that Lyford "do immediately return to East Florida."

  Academic text (2007)

• According to Madison's record of the debates, the advice and consent model was initially presented with reference to the Massachusetts model of executive appointment, in which the Governor appointed officers subject to the advice and consent of an executive council.

  Academic text (2005)

• In the twelve years between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Convention, at least nine states utilized an executive council in the making of appointments.

  Academic text (2005)

• Also among those who've met with Sullivan are the members of the executive council of the Faculty Senate, which was vocal in condemning Sullivan's removal.

  Blog text (25)

• The reality is that Hamas, via its affiliate Islamic Bloc, has dominated the UNRWA teachers' union in Gaza for fifteen years, and in 2006, gained full control of the union's executive council.

  Academic text (2011)

• The deal that has emerged includes a package of simultaneous measures: a transitional constitution, assurances of objective media and a fair electoral process, a transitional executive council, and the agreement on the April 27 election of an assembly that would create a "government of national unity" composed of all parties receiving at least five percent of the vote.

  Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

C

council

vsexecutive council

572 2.9

A group of people who meet to discuss and make decisions about a town or organization

is a governing body with the highest administrative authority

How Secretive

politburo

• Informal

1 9.1

inner circle

45 4.9

executive council

1 5.2

advisory

• Formal

48 4.2

committee

∞ 3.2

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