Some were buried in committees; some were remade in committees and subjected to long debate by the Houses; now and then one was passed upon.
In all parts of the country Democratic committees resolved in furious protest against the dictator.
The real work of the Conference was carried on by committees, and from the meetings of these committees the public and press representatives were as a matter of course excluded.
He served during each year of his membership on the Committees on Railroads, and Education.
In the absence of the usual means of enforcing the laws, the town Governments took in charge the administration of justice, acting either through committees or in town meetings.
To give effect to this clause it was arranged that in all imperial committees and courts both parties should be represented in equal numbers.
Others would have awaited the issue of events as neutrals; but such the committees of safety, or a mob, not unnaturally treated as enemies.
He also appoints the committees of the House of Representatives, and as the initiatory work in our legislation is now so largely done by the committees, this makes him the most powerful officer of the government except the President.
The inefficiency of committees for executive purposes.
Accordingly each township appointed a committee to correspond or confer with committees from other townships.
Town committees of correspondence in Massachusetts in 1772.
In 1772, as we have seen, committees of correspondence between the towns of Massachusetts acted as a sort of provisional government for the commonwealth.
When a measure is proposed it is referred to one of the committees for examination before the house will have anything to do with it.
These executive officers, moreover, as already observed, were subject to more or less control or oversight from committees of the city council.
The committee was then divided up into sub-committees and assigned to necessary and appropriate duties, which were well and faithfully discharged.
Four o'clock came, and the polling-booth was shut; the numbers were made up, and the two committees now anxiously awaited the news from the outlying districts.
Secret committees were appointed to consider them both by Lords and Commons, and in about a fortnight they made their reports.
Nor have the national committees themselves been less energetic and devoted in the discharge of their respective functions.
Committees were formed all over the country somewhat on the order of the committees of correspondence of Revolutionary times.
Congress took up the matter, and committees of both Houses reported in favor of the Bank.
Popular committees are considered here, as with us, in the light of substitutes to constitutional government, and as being only necessary in the interval between the removal of the former and the establishment of the present.
In these views committees of the two Houses of Congress, in reports made to their respective bodies, concurred.
All this had been issued publicly, in open sessions of the National and Legislative Assemblies; but now under the National Convention, the two Committees of Public Safety and of Finance began to decree new issues privately, in secret session.
Committees of experts were appointed to study the whole subject of prices, and at last there were adopted the great "four rules" which seemed to statesmen of that time a masterly solution of the whole difficulty.
They cannot be supposed to take the same interest in its affairs as was shown by the Annual Committees who reported upon its condition and prospects.
As theseCommittees were, however, an important part of the mechanism of the establishment, some general account of their organization and a few extracts from the Report of the one last appointed may not be out of place.
Committees were formed everywhere to aid the armies in the field, to provide for the wounded and the sick and to assist the families of absent soldiers.
Experience with the overgrown and insuppressible Committees for Fighting Counter-Revolution had taught people how serious such a development might be.
He has his share in electing the local Communist Committee, and, indirectly, in electing the all-powerful Central Committee of the party, and he binds himself to do at any moment in his life exactly what theseCommittees decide for him.
Committees choosing them, and send them to the front when the front is in danger, or to the railways and repair shops when it is decided that the weakest point is that of transport.
Representatives of the Central Statistical Office and its local organs had a right to be present at the meeting of these committees of three, or "Troikas," but had not the right to vote.
These Committees decide the use that is to be made of the lives, not only of the rank and file of the party, but also of their own members.
They tried to collaborate with the local "Troikas," sending help when these Committees asked for it.
That learned body is in the habit of making most interesting and profound reports on any memoirs communicated to it; nothing escapes the penetration of their committees appointed for such purposes.
Each of the three great committees to which the subjects mentioned in the Mouravieff circular are assigned was given a president, vice-president, and two honorary presidents.
It was fortunate for me that I could have for this purpose an almost complete lull in our proceedings, the first and second committees of the conference being at work on technical matters, and the third not meeting until next Monday.
These private committees in a merry meeting," said Wildrake, "are a solecism in breeding.
They always put me in mind of the cursed committees at Westminster.
The members representing each province shall constitute separate committees on the Council and shall be styled the provincial committees of the respective provinces.
On that council, too, he has been appointed chairman of several committees by his Catholic fellow county councillors.
The entire Grievance Committee of the Burlington and the Chairmen of all the other Committees composed the assembly.
It was understood that in all our dealings both as Committees and as executive officers among ourselves, or when before the officers of the company, that we should act together.
We believe that the conservative stand that has always been taken, and the intelligence of the men that have been our leaders and committees have been the means of making this record.
These reports created decidedly bitter feeling on the part of the striking employes, and ultimated in the convening of the chairmen of the Grievance Committees of the several systems complained of.
The Committees having exhausted every expedient to effect an amicable adjustment, appealed to their Grand Executive Officers to come to the rescue.
Out of this action of the Committees arose a series of the most threatening complications, which it may be well to explain at this point.
Chairmen of the several Grievance Committees think it practicable, and we earnestly ask the Chairmen to institute this boycott as soon as in their judgment it can be worked with advantage to our cause.
Things went along merrily, letters were exchanged between the chairman of the two committees reporting as to the progress of their representatives.
During the next few days there were anxious meetings of the committees in charge of the arrangements.
There is nothing to oppose the Egyptian army but a mob kept together by the small sums sent by the different committees in foreign countries.
Association for the Relief of the Manufacturing and Labouring Poor; that the committee have full power to dispose of the funds to be collected, and to name sub-committees for correspondence.
He quietly withdrew from places of importance on committees to which he was entitled, and which he would have filled with honor.
This was then, as it is now, the mode of proceeding in England, in the election of the Speaker of the House of Commons, and in the appointment of committees of the House, when they are not chosen by ballot.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "committees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
