mayoral

mayor | American Dictionary

mayor
noun[ C ]
us/ˈmeɪ·ər/
the elected leader of a city or town:
The mayor announced a reorganization of the police department.

mayoral

adjective[ not gradable ]us/ˈmeɪ·ə·rəl/
mayoral elections

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The powers that previous mayors enjoyed were seriously impeded, and they became powerless to solve citizens' economic and social problems.
They visited the mayor, the old people's home and other schools.
The cry went up among the abbey party that the mayor intended to remove the sanctuary men.
This type of appeal was followed by many other progressive mayors.
The author determined to meet some of these people and decided on a visit to the village mayor to seek his aid.
Like elected village chiefs, the currently nominated mayors find themselves in an ambiguous situation.
Letters were written almost daily to prefects and sub-prefects, a little less frequently to mayors of other provinces, the districts and municipal employees.
Those who had only recently been mayors or public officials or labour activists were of course included.
The alert mayor was particularly adept at locating a variety of political resources and mobilizing them to gain influence.
The mayors' offices, which were the distribution centres at the local level, were not designed as high-security institutions.
Crucially enough, although discharging important official duties, the mayor was paid no salary by the government.
In practice, therefore, only a few households can provide the mayor.
In 1946 about two-thirds of the municipalities replaced the mayor elected in 1938.
The key feature in the mayor's style of resource mobilization was episodic and perhaps even ad hoc.
The city's mayor had worked for the bus company and was a powerful advocate of public transport.
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