The prospect of going without bread puts a brief end to the charivari while atownmeetingis held to remedy the situation.
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Have you in the last three or four years attended a public meeting such as atownmeetingor a council meeting?
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The final version also makes thetownmeetinga more masculine event - the preliminary version has three women, while the final painting has only one woman clearly visible.
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If the question had been put to thetownmeetinga discussion could have taken place and a poll could have been held.
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This feeling may be quite unfair, but had we had thistownmeetinghere today this would have come out.
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But is that an argument against thetownmeeting?
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It would certainly be more real to do it in that way than by means of atownmeetingor a town poll.
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The results of the poll confirmed the decisions at thetownmeeting.
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I am sure that that is the experience of everyone who has experience of holding atownmeeting.
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Attempts to raise the question at thetownmeetingwere ruled out of order.
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The origin of thetownmeetingis lost in antiquity.
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What happened as a result of having thistownmeeting?
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The result was atownmeeting, at which it was confidently expected that a representative of the union would be one of the speakers.
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Mention has been made of atownmeeting.
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This being so, there seems no valid reason at all for retaining the town's poll or the voting procedure at thetownmeeting.
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