But it is precisely the state council that regulates all those things.

China's state council information office did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

When these decisive letters came before the state council, the consternation was extreme.

The state council said that Mr Jin had resigned for "personal reasons".

The state council has decided, and I can do nothing!

In all matters discussed before the state council, a majority of votes was to decide.

This report came before the state council, and was sustained by some of its members.

The consulta, or secret committee of the state council, constituted the real government of the country.

The words were repeated in the state council.

Thus having spoken, the soldier retired from the Assembly with the state council at his heels.

The members of the state council, as already observed, were Berlaymont, Viglius, Arras, Orange, and Egmont.

The state council had advised the Duchess against receiving him until he had duly exhibited his powers.

Olden-Barneveld, was excluded from the state council.

In 1985, the Colombian state council condemned the former president and his defence minister for tolerating institutionalised torture.

Medvedev was speaking at a meeting of his advisory state council, which meets regularly and comprises regional governors.

The king was at that time at his palace at Segovia, where also he assembled his state council.