noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a committee/staff/board etc meeting
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A staff meeting will be held at 3 p.m.
a committee/staff/family etc member
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Close friendships developed between crew members on the ship.
a member of a committee/of staff etc
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All members of staff attend regular training sessions.
a review body/committee/panel/board
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We will set up a pay review body for all staff.
a selection committee (= a group of people responsible for choosing something )
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All the exhibitors have been carefully chosen by a very experienced selection committee.
ad hoc committee/group etc
advisory committee/body
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the Environmental Protection Advisory Committee
appear before a court/judge/committee etc
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She appeared before Colchester magistrates charged with attempted murder.
Civil Contingencies Committee, the
disciplinary hearing/committee (= a meeting or group that decides if someone should be punished )
executive body/committee etc (= a group of people who have the power to make decisions )
political action committee
standing committee
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A standing committee was established to coordinate the army and navy.
steering committee
welcoming committee/party
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I was met by a welcoming committee.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
advisory
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Prop 105 would require a charter review advisory committee to be established every 10 years.
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But the Worcestershire diocesan advisory committee for the care of churches has been critical.
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At the hearing, nearly all dischargers on the advisory committee favored disbanding the program.
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In Committee, we discussed the report of the disabled persons transport advisory committee many times.
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He served on a Commerce Department technical advisory committee .
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Experience on statutory advisory committees to the health board has shown me how slow and often ineffectual they are.
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The advisory committee report did little to resolve the mystery surrounding Gulf War illness.
central
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No new members were elected to the party central committee .
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The Cabinet, appointed by the President, is subordinate to the party's central committee .
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A central committee draft law discussing the powers of the presidency of the party was also introduced at the plenum.
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Hong Ha, 63, was the director of the office of the party central committee .
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The congress re-elected Budragchaagiyn Dash-Yondon as chair of an enlarged 147-member central committee .
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The central committee ideology department accused Kharchev of unnecessary interference in the internal affairs of churches and of financial indiscipline.
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A new central committee would be chosen at an extraordinary congress, fixed for April 10.
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His warning was couched in elliptical terms, in a wide-ranging speech to the party's central committee on Saturday.
congressional
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But the congressional intelligence committees are like a black box.
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The recommendations now move to the congressional intelligence committees , which are expected to introduce legislation incorporating the recommendations.
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Continuous liaison with legislators is maintained by agencies at all levels of government. Congressional committees work closely with administrative officials.
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Testifying before a congressional committee on Monday, &038;.
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To most analysts, the way in which Congressional committees operate provides the key to understanding maps such as those displayed here.
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Members of important congressional committees are jockeying to see him.
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It was believed that the latter group had agreed to support him in return for the promise of positions on congressional committees .
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Under the law, Reno has 30 days to respond to such petitions from congressional committees .
disciplinary
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The record of the Disciplinary committee and all papers submitted to it will be made available to the Arbitrators.
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Norwich City and Blackpool have been handed fines by the Football Association's disciplinary committee for failing to control their players.
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Massingberd-Mundy complained to Lord Vestey, then chairman of the Club's disciplinary committee , about Steveney's remark.
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Now, the North Midlands disciplinary committee are to entertain both father and son.
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Stemp appeared before a disciplinary committee in Birmingham today - and was cleared of all blame for the incident.
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When a decision has been reached, all concerned will be recalled and informed of the decision of the disciplinary committee .
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He was hauled before the disciplinary committee after a video showed him clashing with opposition scrum-half Mike Ford during a brawl.
executive
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Our executive committee is composed of voluntary members and a part-time national officer.
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Under Dine, the ruling executive committee tripled in size.
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On Sunday the national executive committee firmly rejected the proposal to set up a working party to study electoral reform.
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Such is the spark of creativity generated by the presence of a member of the executive committee demanding to be asked questions.
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A week later the executive committee met at our Grosvenor Place headquarters.
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We were going into an executive committee meeting for the firm at the Waldorf.
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The executive committee members of Salomon Brothers decided the mortgage market was bad news.
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They elect a 45-member board of directors, which in turns elects a seven-member executive committee , which hired Harlan.
joint
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Democratic lawmakers are calling for a joint legislative committee to review the conduct of Gov.
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Parliament on Aug. 6 approved the setting-up of a joint committee with extensive powers to probe the scandal.
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The Congress meanwhile created a select joint committee to conduct hearings.
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If the Bundestag is unable to convene, legislative power goes to a joint committee of the Bundestag and Bundesrat.
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A joint central committee and joint congresses endeavoured to secure some co-ordination.
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Negotiation: contractually binding conclusions are worked out in joint negotiation committees .
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A joint border committee was to be established between the two countries to deal with any such incidents.
local
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Such divisions of opinion were causing difficulties in the functioning of local medical committees .
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He was also chairman of the local Conservative Party committee .
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This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members.
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The local committees varied greatly in their composition and operating procedures, some of which were highly unusual.
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All subjects gave informed consent for the study, which was approved by the local ethical committee .
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These local committees were supplemented in the autumn of 1921 by the newly formed peasant Committees of Self-Help.
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The latter procedure was in agreement with the recommendations from the local ethical committee .
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Views were also obtained from local family doctor committees and from medical advisers to the Mental Welfare Commission.
national
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In 1919-20 he served on a number of national committees concerned with the mining industry and ore supplies.
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Arnold said that the national committee occasionally dealt with Anne Stock, head of the White House social office.
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On Sunday the national executive committee firmly rejected the proposal to set up a working party to study electoral reform.
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No one believes that money given to the two campaigns' national committees was not intended to influence a federal election.
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The county's chief constable, who heads a national committee on crime, says he hasn't the resources to cope.
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In one situation, he wanted to be appointed to a national traveling committee .
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The national executive committee agreed the following day that an electoral conference would be held on July 18.
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Predictably, members of the Democratic hierarchy who gathered for the national committee meeting favored the status quo.
parliamentary
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Civil servants give evidence to parliamentary committees and other official inquiries.
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In June, a Parliamentary committee assembled to respond to its challenge.
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The New Minister of finance, Sigbjoern Johnsen, had been deputy leader of the parliamentary finance committee since 1986.
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If the parliamentary committee wishes to see Britain's racing transformed, it should forget about tampering with the levy rate.
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He continued to serve on increasing numbers of parliamentary committees until his death 26 March 1652.
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The panel's report, which has been submitted to a parliamentary committee , set out two lines of argument.
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It has already been considered by the relevant Parliamentary committees and this debate will complete its first reading.
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Yet the new balance began to be questioned almost as soon as it was put in place, this time by Parliamentary committees .
political
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Within government, power had passed from charismatic political leaders to committee men.
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As governor, Weld has shunned political action committee contributions.
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The bill would also ban political action committee contributions to federal candidates.
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His political action committee chipped in to numerous campaigns.
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That bill, which died, also would have capped the amount political action committees could contribute to candidates.
select
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Over half the backbenchers are regularly involved with select committee activity.
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In 1986 the Prime Minister listed 150 select committee policy recommendations accepted by the government that year.
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She said that Mr Heseltine had told the industry select committee that he would consider legislation to change the market.
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A total of 93 select committee meetings were televised.
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The revelation was discussed at closed sessions of the Senate select committee on intelligence, chaired by Democrat David Boren.
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It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee .
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Since then he has been an active backbencher, chairing the influential Treasury and Civil Service select committee .
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Poor attendance in the Chamber had been criticised, but the televised coverage of select committees had been welcomed.
special
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They are rather areas where a special planning regime exists and which have their own special planning committee .
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Thus far, no decision has ever reached that level, and only two have ever gone up to the special committee .
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Buckingham Palace officials were at Drummond House on 14 May to inspect the route proposed by the special committee .
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Half the bills introduced each year are written by lobbyists, who often serve alongside elected lawmakers on special legislative committees .
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Oxford and Cambridge undergraduates receive the benefit of advice from special committees of old University men.
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A special committee named the Juddmonte Farms operation leading breeder.
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On 25 February, the special Cabinet committee turned its attention to the reform of supplementary benefit but the meeting was inconclusive.
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The cash will be decided on by a special committee from the Department of National Heritage.
steering
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A steering committee of students, artists, curatorial staff and lecturers was set up.
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Lawrence apparently has no wish to be verified by rock's steering committee .
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The steering committee on refugees resumes in Geneva next month.
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The Club is run by a steering committee elected from the membership.
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So far the steering committee comprises representatives from its lead bank, Barclays, and four big lenders.
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How about a steering committee meeting every three months or so?
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The steering committee did however recommend the appointment of a Prime Minister, and provision for greater freedom of information.
■ NOUN
action
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They've formed an action committee to try to recover the funds.
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Members of political action committees might have hoped for a little breather before being hit up again for money.
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Students' action committees began coordinating demonstrations and contacting workers' organizations.
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Political action committees can be a huge problem for challengers in federal races.
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A shareholders action committee has been formed to see if any value can be obtained.
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The Clinton campaign does not accept money from political action committees through which teacher unions funnel their contributions.
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An action committee over 20 strong was elected at the meeting to decide further action.
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It all started with a public meeting in 1989 when an action committee was set up.
chairman
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They had held a site meeting on Thursday and he had turned up instead of the committee chairman they were expecting.
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Henry Hyde, R-Ill., who is platform committee chairman , is still hoping to defuse the explosive issue.
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Labour committee chairman Jim Skinner said he would be concerned by any further erosion of rail services.
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That trait was underscored by a letter he wrote Tuesday to the ethics committee chairman , Rep.
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In the same period the power of standing committee chairmen was further eroded by the institutionalization and proliferation of sub-committees.
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House Republican Conference rules prohibit a censured lawmaker from being a committee chairman or holding a leadership post.
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If committee chairmen have a monopoly over such resources their colleagues will be badly disadvantaged.
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In a letter to committee chairman Sen.
education
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Principals of colleges, their governors and education committee members and officers were invited.
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On regional education committees the teaching unions have had their voting rights removed.
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The education committee of the Ohio legislature has been considering a bill requiring evidence against evolution to also be taught.
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The association says Traquair and Longformacus primaries will be next on the education committee agenda.
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The councillors ratified the decision taken earlier by the education committee .
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The Chair of the Education committee was often a key figure whose ear it might be useful to have.
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Her next appointment in 1942 was as the first educational psychologist employed by the education committee of the city of Edinburgh.
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In 1890 she was elected to the school board at Bradford and the West Riding education committee .
ethics
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I take issue with the view that district ethics committees are superfluous once central committees have approved a multicentre project.
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The tug-of-war comes at a time when the ethics committee is facing an exceptional workload.
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The study was approved by the ethics committee of our university and informed consent was obtained from all patients and healthy volunteers.
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Seven days later, Gingrich admitted violating House rules by, among other things, submitting false information to the ethics committee .
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The study was approved by the Western Infirmary ethics committee and each patient gave informed written consent.
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Gingrich did not disclose that in meeting with an ethics committee lawyer.
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Informed consent was obtained from each person and the protocol was approved by the ethics committee of Leiden University Hospital.
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The Republicans on the ethics committee knew what Cole had found in his investigation.
meeting
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Many people want to help but just don't want to be bogged down with wasteful committee meetings every week for years.
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Jack Kemp, and held some committee meetings .
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Staff did not attend committee meetings unless this was requested by members.
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The public have a statutory right to be present during council meetings and committee meetings.
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Gedge largely preferred late night debates to attending stolid committee meetings in upstairs pub rooms or pushing by-election leaflets through doors.
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All of them contained agendas and minutes of council committee meetings .
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And Mr Major happily used freelance fixers like Mr Wakeham to defuse potentially difficult committee meetings .
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The deliberations of formal committee meetings are always recorded in the form of Minutes.
member
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It was also confirmed that Phil Field, as Membership Secretary, is a committee member .
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I had to think about a different management committee member when I did each one.
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They wanted induction and training for all management committee members and for the management committee to take a lead in fund raising.
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He listed the various committee members and what he thought of them.
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The committee members are appointed by the Committee of Selection.
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I had to describe my relationship with each of the committee members .
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The December through February sessions had gone so well that committee members believed they should conduct similar training throughout the division.
planning
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These are just two reasons why an environmental impact survey is needed but the planning committee have not considered this.
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He will also tell the island's planning committee that it should go forward to public consultation and a public meeting.
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A report to Midlothian's planning committee recommends the proposal gets the go ahead.
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They are rather areas where a special planning regime exists and which have their own special planning committee .
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The grant was one of several agreed by councillors on the economic development and planning committee .
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Such people were adept at the manipulation of planning committees , the lobbying of local government officers.
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The application will be considered by a planning committee .
review
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The plan will be considered by the Government's energy review committee .
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Most universities have some review committee that requires a statement from the researcher that adequate protection will be guaranteed for all respondents.
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The conclusions of Alec's review committee , however, were not at all helpful to Ted.
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It may be distributed to members of the review committee .
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The cabinet was informed as late as possible; even ministers on the poll-tax review committee were not told what was coming.
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There were 240 cases that went before the undergraduate administrative review committee .
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Also, a citizens' programme review committee should be established.
selection
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What would be gained by being a bother to the selection committee of a twenty-two carat Tory seat?
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Generally, engineering contracts first go through a selection committee before being forwarded to Huckelberry's office.
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Her sisters under the skin would man the constituency selection committees .
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In the cases that Keenan complained about, Huckelberry admits changing the decision of the selection committee , but denies any wrongdoing.
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McIntosh will also join the six-man selection committee .
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The nine-man selection committee went for Ray Allen by a 6-3 margin.
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On Wednesday after the selection committee meeting, I realized I'd left my fountain pen in here.
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You see, Gonzaga did finish stronger, which is a factor the selection committee takes into account.
senate
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A parallel Senate committee also intends to look into Mr Rodham's role.
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At a Senate committee hearing on Wednesday, however, the tire-burning effort drew protests.
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Mr White himself is expected to appear before the Senate committee on Thursday.
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A Senate committee under the leadership of Sen.
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In reviewing this decision, the Senate shall be advised by the appropriate Senate committee .
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She had been called previously, she said, by investigators for the House and Senate committees probing Democratic fund-raising.
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A Senate committee approved legislation last week to require storage of the spent fuel in an interim facility in Nevada.
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The study covered soft money gifts to the national, House and Senate committees of each major party.
standing
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Elections happen every year, yes, but it's always the standing committee that gets elected.
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A standing committee was set up to co-ordinate the international relief effort.
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Operating as a standing committee of Council, its membership comprises: Two members nominated from each of the 22 district societies.
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Yao Yilin and Song Ping, both hardline conservatives, were removed from the standing committee .
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The majority of members serving on the Association's various standing committees are elected from the representatives on the council.
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Hu had served on the politburo standing committee and secretariat.
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A detailed clause by clause analysis of the Bill by a standing committee of between 1-50 M.P.s.
■ VERB
appoint
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Tim Wallace is appointed to the committee and is to be responsible for the funds allotted to the preservation group.
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He had made up his mind to appoint a nonpolitical committee of outside experts and prominent private citizens.
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This was due to the lethargy of the central and guberniia authorities who appointed local committee members.
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Instead, he would appoint a committee of foremen, operators, and managers to study the problem and recommend a solution.
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The society appointed a medical committee , which outlined the essential problems in a series of simple questions.
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Janet led us through the victories at the polls, then appointed a committee that drafted the Florida Educational Equity Act.
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In 1640, parliament, with the agreement of Charles I, appointed a committee to investigate complaints against clergy.
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Both cities appointed committees to study the charter concept.
chair
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Meeks did chair the committee to study the parking problem, which ultimately recommended that parking assignments be eliminated.
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He chaired the committee that recommended it to Clinton in 1998.
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After his retirement, he chaired the committee on currency and foreign exchanges and served on the cabinet committee on indemnity.
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Republicans, in a conciliatory gesture, agreed to let the Democrats chair committees during the period.
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Instead they have taken it in turns to chair the committees .
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Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a longtime abortion opponent tapped by Dole to chair the committee crafting the official party platform.
establish
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Companies or governments might establish committees with powers to investigate, recommend or even to make decisions.
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One of the changes was establishing a partnership committee to evaluate whether to go public.
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The final communiqué reported the decision to establish an observation committee to monitor the cease-fire as well as the forthcoming elections.
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They established a committee to meet with DeGrazia to try to find solutions both sides could support.
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The meeting had ended in agreement to establish a permanent liaison committee .
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Already, one top Republican fund-raiser, Ohio attorney Thomas Tripp, has established such a committee .
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Some governing bodies have been sensitive to this danger and have established committees and structures involving teachers other than the teacher-governors.
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And by establishing coordination committees operating within the team concept, he brought about far better mutual support.
form
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In June 1788 Clarkson proposed that the London committee promote widespread agitation through forming local committees.
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Killian said he will form an oversight committee to watch the effect of the legislation and change it if problems arise.
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They've formed an action committee to try to recover the funds.
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The company said it formed a committee to begin searching for a replacement for Edwards.
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Quackenbush, 43, has not announced a reelection bid but has formed a campaign committee .
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In 1969 he formed a committee to raise funds and got together a band of volunteers who transformed the churchyard.
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Simultaneously, they chose block committees , established communal kitchens, organized working parties, and formed a camp welfare committee.
meet
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All subject committees meet on the same day.
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Gershman's suggestion that the committee of the whole meet at 5 p.m. is a good one, too.
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I trust you will bring the above to the attention of your committee when they meet to consider the application.
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Katherine having lunch with him after the management committee meeting last Wednesday.
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Councillors on Sefton's environment committee will meet tonight to discuss the issue.
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We were going into an executive committee meeting for the firm at the Waldorf.
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The Chilcott case was due to be heard last night by the committee , which generally meets once a fortnight.
serve
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Should not that proviso apply to anybody serving on any committee ?
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He had served on numerous civic committees and dabbled on the fringes of politics, mainly at the name-dropping level.
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He also served on numerous other committees and commissions.
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To be successful, a former member must have served on an influential committee and acquired expertise on controversial issues.
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Often this involves serving on college committees .
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In 1917-18 she served on the committee on post-war reconstruction, where she frequently clashed with Beatrice Webb.
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In order to install the lopsided majorities, more Republicans have to serve on multiple committees .
set
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He says his next move is to set up an action committee to step up his campaign.
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The Democrats set up a committee to fire them and bring in Democrats, and Daley took part in the gleeful task.
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The Minister's response was to set up a coordinating committee of the nationalised fuel industry chairmen.
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One of its first actions on taking power in March was to set up a committee to review the project.
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Bill Rodgers having set up this committee , it now fell to me to decide what to do with their report.
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Having spent the past two or three years setting up their committees , they are reluctant to unravel them now.
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They took the NoS way out by setting up another committee - the product development committee - to keep Sutton in line.
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Some companies, such as Universal, have set up lyric committees to prevent the release of offensive material.
steer
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He was also on the steering committee for the Hillsborough disaster cases.
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Finally, a steering committee was formed late last year and, within two months, the organizational meeting was held.
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The Foreign Office authorised the association to establish a steering committee under my chairmanship.
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Some might decide to elect a special institutions representative, a steering committee , and a hospitality committee.
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Together, these industries formed a large and active steering committee .
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A systemwide school-to-career steering committee reflects the power structure in Boston.
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In the last four months, Hernandez developed a steering committee of parents, students, non-profit groups and businesses.
tell
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Lord James told the committee an extension of hours had been under consideration since the 1970s.
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Watkins told the committee he believed his reprimand was unjustified.
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She said that Mr Heseltine had told the industry select committee that he would consider legislation to change the market.
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Supple told committee members that the university is currently searching for a new athletic director.
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Fred Taylor would tell a congressional committee about him forty years later.
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Baer later told the committee he would help Beer in her search.
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He must catch a flight to Washington to tell a committee that the cities need more money.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
action group/committee etc
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A shareholders action committee has been formed to see if any value can be obtained.
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Members of a local action group say this isn't good enough.
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Members of political action committees might have hoped for a little breather before being hit up again for money.
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Outhwaite names' champion Peter Nutting is to head a new working party to co-ordinate syndicate action groups.
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Political action committees, which are more active in congressional races, represented only 2 percent of the presidential campaign coffers.
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They've formed an action committee to try to recover the funds.
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Traffickers have become a political action committee.
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Under the Apostolic listing are prison visiting, family contacts, catechism classes, Catholic action groups and Sunday schools.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A welcoming committee greets newcomers to the Parkside neighborhood.
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Bill Dean has been elected chairman of the committee .
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She's been on the Church committee for 20 years.
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The finance committee has decided to raise membership fees for next season.
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the Senate Armed Forces Committee
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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All high cost drugs are already rationed in hospitals through drug and therapeutics committees and clinical pharmacy services.
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In addition, procedural reforms in the 1970s transformed the relationship between chairmen and their committee colleagues.
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In the House, for example, there were 634 persons on committee staffs in 1967.
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Step forward Tom Pendry, who chairs the Labour Party sports committee .
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The committee includes people such as Elliott Shurgin, general manager of index services.
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The pro-incorporation committee folks argue that nobody who opposed incorporation should be appointed to the council -- once more demonstrating their exclusivity.
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They had held a site meeting on Thursday and he had turned up instead of the committee chairman they were expecting.