1. 9 As the drought intensified, Mulholland begged the city fathers to end their abject deification of growth.

2. 29 The Reverend Mr Enders had assaulted the city fathers with his pleas and cries to spare her life.

3. The city fathers of Appaloosa hire them after Randall Bragg (Jeremy Irons), a newly-arrived rancher with money and a gang of thugs, disrupts commerce and kills three local lawmen

4. What would the city fathers think if on a given day I showed up on one of the runways of the Idaho Falls airport or the middle of one of the grassy fields in Freeman Park with a backhoe and started digging large holes?