before the council vs a head of the council

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• It was suggested that we should hold a trilogue, or at least a dialogue, with you before the Council adopts its recommendation to grant discharge.
• Lord Hotta tells me that... I'm to be questioned before the Council takes its final vote.
• Many of the Commission's proposals are at present pending before the Council.
• There is, at present, no proposal before the Council to establish an EU-wide DNA database.
• I was rather set back to hear the President-in-Office make the statement that there were no proposals before the Council.
• May I say, first of all, that there is no proposal before the Council from the Commission.
• That was not even mentioned in the documents before the Council.
• As honourable Members might know, a horizontal instrument which aims at improved mutual judicial assistance is currently before the Council.
• If it wants to come back with different legislation, for example the pensions directive which is before the Council now, we could take this into consideration.
• A mechanism should be established whereby Member States may invoke this safeguard and ultimately bring the matter before the Council for decision.
• Parliament should, therefore, be able to act in a timely and relevant manner before the Council takes its decisions.
• Of course there is much to be done before the Council and Parliament reach a final agreement.
• However, before the Council can implement the agreement, Serbia must fully cooperate with the International Criminal Court.
• There are currently no proposals before the Council regarding the question of the funding of producers of cluster munitions.
• To achieve these objectives, last May the Commission put before the Council a proposal for a consumer credit directive, on which a political agreement was reached.
• A proposal to renew that programme for 2007-2013, spanning the lifetime of the new financial perspective, is currently before the Council and the European Parliament.
• ...I am changing my position on the matter before the council.
• The matter before the council is simple.
• You will speak before the council in two days' time.
• The matter before the council is simple.

Some examples from the web:

• You be head of the Council.
• Your presence at the head of the Council is already a guarantee of determination.
• (the head of the Council on Foreign Relations and former Chairman of Chase Manhattan bank).
• We want the Council of Heads of State or Government to devise and adopt a different model, with other weighting criteria being used in this context.
• Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is foolish to try to undertake an analysis of six months of activity at the head of the Council in a few moments.
• Who is the head of the council?
• Only K'mpec, the Head of the Council, has been able to maintain the peace.
• EU Ministers in the Council and Heads of State and Government have again urged action against people-trafficking in the declaration of the European conference in Athens on 17 April 2003.
• She is the head of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, and she has told her constituency that she is going to get copyright protection for fashion designs.
• She was head of the student council.
• In addition to the Council of Heads of State, the Defence Council and the Economic Council have taken on an important role.
• Mr Santer, President of the Council and head of the Luxembourg Government, even went so far as to claim that Croatia was not large enough to become a country.
• Climate change, as he so rightly said, is a major challenge for us all: for the Council of Heads of State or Government, for the European Parliament and for the Commission.
• It says the head of the city council will automatically succeed the mayor unless challenged by another candidate, in which case a special election must be held.
• My first meeting as head of the Greek Council was a complete bloodbath.
• And among other things, I'm head of the Theosophic Council.
• At tomorrow's meeting of the European Council, Heads of State and Government will deliberate how the situation could best be remedied.
• The debate on the preparation of the European Council meeting is on Wednesday morning, and that is the logical time to discuss the issue, when the heads of the Council and the Commission will be present.
• Other information: (a) Chairman of the Ruling Council (Taliban regime), (b) Head of the Council of Ministers (Taliban regime), (c) reportedly deceased in April 2001.
• And the head of the council said, "If we didn't have Transition Stroud, we would have to invent all of that community infrastructure for the first time."