7 sentences with 'mayor'

Example sentences and phrases with the word mayor and other words derived from it.

« One Sunday afternoon in the middle of that same month, the mayor of Manila, Alfredo Lim, was sitting at home reading the editorial of the Today newspaper. »
« The paper urged the mayor to give the award to someone else who deserved a gold medal: a girl who three months earlier had performed a heroic act, but not in a ring, but in a ring of fire. »
« What the policemen said was also incomprehensible to her: the mayor of Manila was on his way to visit her, and he also wanted to meet Rona. »
« Fear spread in the city of Buenos Aires when the first defeated troops arrived. Faced with the possibility of a swift British attack, the mayor Martín de Álzaga took command, who organised the defence, ordered trenches to be dug, distributed weapons and raised everyone's spirits. At that moment Liniers returned, having managed to reorganise his forces. »
« As an open cabildo could not be convened by the Ayuntamiento without the agreement of the viceroy, the mayor visited him to convey the request. Cisneros consulted the military chiefs, who were in favour of the deliberation. »
« Accustomed to representative democracy, jury trials and the right of the accused to appear before a judge, Anglo-American settlers in Texas also disliked the Mexican legal system, which provided for an initial hearing by a alcalde, an administrator who often combined the roles of mayor, judge and law enforcement officer. The alcalde would send a written record of the proceedings to a judge in Saltillo, the state capital, who would decide the outcome. »
« When businessman Haden Edwards tried to evict the people who had settled on his land grant before he obtained title to it, the Mexican government annulled its agreement with him. Outraged, Edwards and a small group of men took the mayor of Nacogdoches prisoner. »

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