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aldermen

n. 市参议员(市议会长老议员)

Alderman \Al"der*man\ ([add]l"d[~e]r*man), n.; pl. {Aldermen}.
[AS. aldormon, ealdorman; ealdor an elder + man. See {Elder},
n.]
1. A senior or superior; a person of rank or dignity. [Obs.]

Note: The title was applied, among the Anglo-Saxons, to
princes, dukes, earls, senators, and presiding
magistrates; also to archbishops and bishops, implying
superior wisdom or authority. Thus Ethelstan, duke of
the East-Anglians, was called Alderman of all England;
and there were aldermen of cities, counties, and
castles, who had jurisdiction within their respective
districts.

3. One of a board or body of municipal officers next in order
to the mayor and having a legislative function. They may,
in some cases, individually exercise some magisterial and
administrative functions.

Sawyer, who was elected acting mayor by fellow aldermen days after Washington's death, has been struggling to keep the seat.
Hispanic groups filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking to delay election of aldermen until after the city redistricts the wards they represent.
And there is also the embarrassing possibility that the aldermen will be forced in the end to accept Matson.
Sawyer was supported then by many of the same white aldermen who helped reshape the committees Wednesday.
After months of negotiations among the school committee, aldermen and the Legislature, an agreement was reached in June giving the university control.
Many of the audience members shouted, "Go home, Uncle Tom!" to some of the black aldermen who defended the purge.
Holyoke aldermen voted in January to approve a symbolic resolution protesting Fonda's plans to film in the city because of her visit to Hanoi during the war.
Washington, who had many Jewish allies, was the city's first black mayor and fought a long battle against white aldermen for control of the city's government.
Black aldermen stormed its halls last year to take down a portrait of the late Harold Washington, the city's first black mayor, who was depicted by a student wearing frilly women's underwear.
"It was manufactured," Pickens said. "He was not kidnapped." Mayor Robert Godwin said Blue Mountain's board of aldermen would meet to discuss Stokes' future as marshal, a position he's held for four months.
From office clerks to aldermen, 63 employees in North Chicago _ a middle-class community of 18,500 about 25 miles north of Chicago _ were tested last Friday, and the remainder were to be tested Thursday, Thompson said.
The students repeatedly restored the painting to the wall after aldermen took it down.
Chicopee aldermen called Wednesday's hearing on a request that they pass a resolution similar to the one in Holyoke.
The painting, titled "Mirth and Girth," was seized by a group of black aldermen last week who stormed the school's halls and was later confiscated by police.
Bush looked at the state legislators, aldermen, judges, sheriffs and other officeholders who had crossed political lines and pronounced himself well pleased.
But after the mayor repeatedly vetoed the black aldermen's proposals, Thompson ran for mayor in 1973 on an all-black slate. That winning slate also was sued _ unsuccessfully.
Students said they had consulted attorneys about filing a civil rights lawsuit against the aldermen and police for impounding the painting.
But Alderman Burt Natarus argued the system is already working, since 15 aldermen have been convicted of criminal wrongdoing over the past two decades.
Mayor Billy Wells and another volunteer paid $52 for the first set in May, fearing for the birds' safety. Wells first tried to charge the city, but aldermen complained the signs were a needless expense.
A mostly white coalition of aldermen elected Sawyer over Evans a week after Washington died and many Evans supporters sat out last week's primary.

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