…an advisory, deliberative, or administrative body of people formally constituted and meeting regularly…
…an advisory, deliberative, or administrative body of people formally constituted and meeting regularly…
…an advisory, deliberative, or administrative body of people formally constituted and meeting regularly…
…a tax levied on households by local authorities in Britain, based on the estimated value of a property and the number of people living in it…
…a body established in the UK in 1953 to raise and maintain professional standards among journalists…
…a body of advisers appointed by a sovereign or a Governor General (now chiefly on an honorary basis and including present and former government ministers)…
…(especially in the UK) the elected governing body in a municipality…
…(in the UK) one of a number of statutory bodies, now abolished, consisting of workers‘ and employers’ representatives responsible for determining wages in particular industries…
…a group of employees representing a workforce in discussions with their employers…
…an organization established in 1934 with the aims of promoting a wider knowledge of Britain and the English language abroad, and of developing closer cultural relations with other countries…
…a town or city council, now only in London and some parts of Canada and the US…
…an industrial and commercial city in southwestern Iowa, on the Missouri River, opposite Omaha in Nebraska; population 59,536 (est. 2008)…
…an area of houses built and rented out to tenants by a local council…
…(in the UK) the elected governing body of an administrative county…
…any of five general councils of the Western Church held in the Lateran Palace in 1123, 1139, 1179, 1215, and 1512–17. The council of 1215 condemned the Albigenses as heretical and clarified the Church doctrine on transubstantiation, the Trinity, and the Incarnation…
…each of two general councils of the Roman Catholic Church, held in 1869–70 and 1962-5. The first (Vatican I) proclaimed the infallibility of the Pope when speaking ex cathedra; the second (Vatican II) made numerous reforms, abandoning the universal Latin liturgy and acknowledging ecumenism…
…a negotiating body for discussing and settling matters of industrial relations, pay and conditions, and related issues…
