The Council exercised executive power and advised the governor.

The Council of Elders also exercises legislative powers with respect to rules governing tribal membership and enrollment.

Eventually, a consensus developed among the commissioners that the charter would say only that the Council should exercise broad oversight over contracting.

According to this statement, the Council would collectively exercise the powers of the presidency and a government would be appointed.

The Council and the Commission of the European Union also exercise executive power, as do devolved governments.

The Council of States exercises the following functions:

As of February 12 little is known about how the Council will exercise power or transfer it to other institutions.

The Council of Ministers, through its 9-member executive committee, exercises executive and administrative power.

After years of essentially adopting whatever budget the Mayor put in front of them, the Council had exercised its charter-protected powers.

Here too, the Commission and the Council should exercise greater imagination, rather than simply pointing out that the way is, in any case, already mapped out.