An informal council of elders (oqsoqol, or aksakal) provided leadership.

Adama calls an informal council, and the pilots decide to conduct a security check on Chameleon.

Initially the ground level would serve as headquarters for the admiral, the governor, and the informal council.

He coined the term "environmental racism" and became a member of an informal council of the major environmental groups.

But the informal councils have no legal powers and they cannot impose any penalties.

"They aren't staying to see whether we're friendly," observed Delcetta, reining up to join the informal council at the head of the column.

Tribal elders deliberated in a series of informal councils.

Let us have an informal council behind the President's back.

This was one of the informal councils, which they called indaba, that had become a tradition of camp life over the months.

Nonetheless, the informal council I'd formed the previous week convened at my (new) place after supper.