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  • noun Plural form of mayor.

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Examples

  • I think what we know as mayors, we see this very personally.

    CNN Transcript Feb 7, 2009 2009

  • I think what we know as mayors, we see this very personally.

    CNN Transcript Feb 8, 2009 2009

  • And I think what you see in Adrian Fenty who was just defeated in his mayoral race, Cory Bookers and this generation of young black mayors is that there's a feeling that they're not ours, that they don't belong to us, that they don't - aren't first and foremost they don't first and foremost represent us.

    Op-Ed: 15 Bleak Years Since The Million Man March 2010

  • And I think what you see in Adrian Fenty who was just defeated in his mayoral race, Cory Bookers and this generation of young black mayors is that there's a feeling that they're not ours, that they don't belong to us, that they don't - aren't first and foremost they don't first and foremost represent us.

    Op-Ed: 15 Bleak Years Since The Million Man March 2010

  • I called the mayors office and asked about shooting on the streets and do I need a permit to set up.

    WIRED Video: Street Portraiture 2009

  • Now the legacy of these two-term mayors are intertwined again, reunited in their joint pursuit of maintaining the "status quo" at City Hall that benefits the "exclusive few" at the expense of an dwindling middle class that once was the foundation, to paraphrase the late actor Jack Webb's Dragnet Sgt.

    Archive 2009-11-01 2009

  • Now the legacy of these two-term mayors are intertwined again, reunited in their joint pursuit of maintaining the "status quo" at City Hall that benefits the "exclusive few" at the expense of an dwindling middle class that once was the foundation, to paraphrase the late actor Jack Webb's Dragnet Sgt.

    How will the Outcome in the CD 2 Special Election, "Affect the Legacies" of these Two-Term Mayors? 2009

  • Earlier today, the council rejected an amendment that would have allowed the public to vote on whether or not to let two-term mayors run again.

    CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2008 2008

  • No, I just picked up the phone and I called mayors 'offices, sheriffs' departments all across the country, and I said, ` You've got to tell me where the relatives of these boys are.

    Flags of Our Fathers 2000

  • So, my second concern with a council dominated by mayors is that it may not have the ability to make the tough regional interest decisions and set region-wide priorities.

    The Future of the Greater Toronto Area 1996

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