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mayoral

[ mey-er-uhl, mey-awr-uhl ]

adjective

  1. having to do with the office or person of a mayor or chief official of a city, village, or town:

    A lunchtime discussion by the mayoral candidates will focus on education funding.



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The series takes place on a planet called New World, where we meet Todd, a boy living in a religiously devoted settlement known as Prentisstown, led by the megalomaniac mayor, David Prentiss.

Sanders had taken over the city as the first mayor under the new strong mayor form of governance.

As mayor, Gloria has an opportunity to continue Faulconer’s pro-housing agenda.

Gómez told the mayor’s office in a memo Monday that she wants the city to negotiate a one-year extension of SDG&E’s contract to give the new mayor and Council time to determine the city’s energy future, reports VOSD’s Mackenzie Elmer.

The board members of GrowNYC are appointed by the mayor, and to date, Bronzaft has made it through five of them.

A three-way tabloid circulation war was being waged amid a three-way mayoral election.

DeMaio has claimed that his 2012 mayoral opponent criticized his partner "just to point out the fact that I was gay."

In Hattiesburg, the fourth largest city in the state, a second mayoral election was held in September 2013.

Perry said most of the absentee ballots questioned in the mayoral race had six or seven different issues.

The group did decline to endorse DeMaio during his mayoral race.

A silk vest that was a condensed flower garden made the mayoral front a gorgeous sight to behold.

They had not met since the famous mayoral campaign when Carter, by means of wholesale bribery, had swept all before him.

His recent refusal of the mayoral chain, due to lack of spare coin, had been attributed to prudence.

The mayoral is, under the master or his administrador, the chief mate or first lieutenant of the ship.

They have not heard the story of that downcast-looking girl, the now incorrigibly malignant Negro, and the lying mayoral.

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