Definition of Council

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Council

An assembly of men summoned or convened for consultation, deliberation, or advice; as, a council of physicians for consultation in a critical case.

A body of man elected or appointed to constitute an advisory or a legislative assembly; as, a governor's council; a city council.

Act of deliberating; deliberation; consultation.

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Council Quotations

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced - the just demands of peace and security will be met - or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.
Colin Powell

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.
Chanakya

Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the Grand Council of heaven before this world was. I suppose I was ordained to this very office in that Grand Council.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

Peace is not made at the council table or by treaties, but in the hearts of men.
Herbert Hoover

A chief called Lawyer, because he was a great talker, took the lead in the council, and sold nearly all the Nez Perce country.
Chief Joseph

All wars are planned by old men in council rooms apart.
Grantland Rice

We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the people of Iraq in making the transition to democracy.
Dick Cheney

We were once friends with the whites but you nudged us out of the way by your intrigues, and now when we are in council you keep nudging each other.
Black Kettle

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Pope John XXIII

Iraq has a new opportunity to comply with all these relevant resolutions of the Security Council.
Kofi Annan

Council Translations

council in Dutch is raad, raadgevend lichaam
council in German is Rat, Kollegium
council in Italian is consigliere
council in Latin is concilium, consilium
council in Portuguese is conselho
council in Spanish is concilio

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