| 词汇 | unitary-authority |
| 释义 | unitary authority noun[ C ] uk /ˌjuː.nɪ.tər.i ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/ us /ˌjuː.nɪ.ter.i əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/ in England, a town or city or large area that is responsible for all the functions of local government, so that these are not divided between two different authorities: （英格兰的）单一管理区 Cheshire's two-tier system - a county council and six district councils - changed, with the county split between two unitary authorities.柴郡过去的两级体系，即一个县议会和六个区议会，发生了变化，郡分开成为两个单一管理区。 The vast majority of district and county councils that responded to our recent consultation paper on the structure of local government in England expressed their desire to become unitary authorities. Unitary authorities provide the best means for securing local services at the lowest cost. He said Cleveland would be best served with a unitary authority covering the current area. Plans to impose more unitary authorities on Britain's disjointed patchwork of local government have hit a glitch after a judicial review was brought in the High Court. UK politics: local government & politics administrative alderman alderwoman anti-city authority councilmember councilwoman county borough county council development area enterprise zone municipality parish parish council parochial prefecture shire the North-South divide town planning unitary Examples of unitary authorityunitary authority Unitaryauthority decisions can be cavalier in the extreme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a unitaryauthority for local government purposes. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To our knowledge, no other authority has suggested that it needs more councillors solely because of its new responsibilities as a unitaryauthority. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Our excellent settlement allows us to get the unitaryauthority off to a good start in funding its services. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It might be thought that there would be other cases, but we are the only unitaryauthority where the electoral cycles do not match. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is not a unitaryauthority, but its councillors feel that some cuts have been made. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It may work where there is a unitaryauthority, but it comes under strain where there are two local authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If we want effective and convenient unitaryauthority local government, we should look to the county councils. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are agreed that there are great advantages to be got from having a unitaryauthority, where we can get that without sacrificing everything else. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My reservation so far as the report on this unitaryauthority idea is concerned is the proposed maximum size of 1 million. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although it is to be part of the unitaryauthority, it will be, as it were, still pre-empting certain powers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 And, thirdly, can he tell us how many electors every member of a unitaryauthority will have to represent under the new scheme? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Of course, for a unitaryauthority we must have fixed an upper and a lower limit of population. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There could be as many as four options, one of which could even be that the unitaryauthority was a county council. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In addition, however, there are the problems associated with moving from a county structure to a smaller unitaryauthority structure. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of unitary authority These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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