national council

collocation in English

meaningsofnationalandcouncil

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national
adjective
uk
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/us
/ˈnæʃ.ən.əl/
relating to or typical of a whole country and its people, rather than to part of that country or to ...
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council
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/ˈkaʊn.səl/us
/ˈkaʊn.səl/
a group of people elected or chosen to make decisions or give advice on a particular subject, to represent a particular group of people, or to run a ...
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(Definition ofnationalandcouncilfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Of the fifty-two members on thenationalcouncilresponsible for price decisions, thirty of them were representatives of producer associations compared with nine from commerce and nine from industry.
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There has been no recent formal meeting with representatives of thenationalcouncil; but we are well aware of the council's work and its aims.
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The effect of resource equalisation will be that to all intents and purposes we shall have anationalcounciltax rate.
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We shall very shortly be resuming discussions on the changes in the consultants' contract for next year's review with the jointnationalcouncil.
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Such diploma would have to be, in the first case, supervised by anationalcouncilof some kind.
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The first is, are we to have a system of regional advisory councils and academic boards, with anationalcouncilof technology at the apex?
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We should naturally want to keep in close touch with anationalcouncilfor drama training if one were established.
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I should like to see the gambling operators themselves associated with anationalcouncil.
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We do not see a place for anationalcouncilwithin these arrangements.
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After looking at the report of thenationalcouncilfor social services, you can say that again!
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It is only right that he or she should be fully party to the decisions of thenationalcouncil.
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Together with thenationalcounciland others, we are developing the necessary data sources.
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In addition, thenationalcounciltakes all decisions.
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Thenationalcouncilcannot be removed from office.
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Is there not anationalcouncilwhich has agreed to the increase of 2½ d. an hour?
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The teachers' unions asked that, instead of the interim advisory committee, there should be an elected body, which they called the jointnationalcouncil.
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The proposednationalcouncilwould, if it proved successful, become a useful source of objective research and information on this contentious area.
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You cannot set up a greatnationalcouncilon agriculture for the reorganisation of agriculture.
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Those are both subjects on which the views of anationalcouncilon gambling would be very useful.
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It is this situation that has led to the proposal that there should be established anationalcouncilof gambling financed substantially from secular sources.
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