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committee

A group of people that come together to do something or decide something. He is on the administrative committee. They decide how to administer the school.

committee

a special group delegated to consider some matter a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours — Milton Berle a self-constituted organization to promote something

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Simple sentences

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
The committee has ten members.
The committee accepted the proposal.
Are you on the committee?
We made Mr Grey chairman of the committee.
The committee is discussing social welfare.
The committee consists of twelve members.
All the members of the committee hate one another.
The members of the committee are all men.
His influence in the committee became weaker and weaker.
The majority of the committee voted against the bill.
The committee met and discussed whom to appoint to the post.
A committee has been set up to investigate the problem.
The committee were discussing the problem.
The committee elected him chairperson.
The committee comprises ten members.
Our committee consists of ten members.
The committee meets twice a month.
The committee will meet next Friday.
The committee are all present.
Tom suggested another plan to the committee.

Movie subtitles

The president and members of the committee enter.
He is the most energetic member of War Production Committee, Your Honour.
War Poduction Committee. Top secret.
War Poduction Committee.
Here comes the Committee of the Workers.
My boy, the disciplinary committee has agreed.under pressure from your soft-hearted teacher.
Pengallon, if you do not book me good I denounced you to the committee!
The New Citizens Committee won't stand for him!
Sorry, I was in committee.
Then a pageboy takes it to the desk where a long-faced clerk reads it, refers it to the right committee.
Some committee's got it.
Your bill has to stand in line unless the steering committee thinks it's important.
What's the steering committee?
This morning, we met the royal committee for the development of Algeria. There'll be a railroad from Algiers to Blida.
That is within the realm of possibility, I admit. But I've got an old friend on the U.N.'s Peace Observation Committee, so don't worry.
Petrograd Committee of the bolshevik Party.
The Petrograd Committee was forging a fighting will.
On October 10 the BoIshevist central Committee was deciding the question of armed uprising.
Answering the call of the military revolutionary Committee.
The Menshevik - S.-R. Executive Committee was opening the congress.
Committee for Saving MotherIand and revolution.
By the name of the military revolutionary Committee I declare the provisional Government overthrown.
Entertainment committee, diplomats' chamber?
I'll solve the problem with Napoleon in my own way. and tell the entertainment committee, the Czar mustn't leave the ballroom.
Hey, where's the reception committee?
As chairwoman of the committee I extend the good wishes of the people of Freedonia.
I was in town one day with nothing to do. and joined some fool committee or other that was investigating. labor conditions in a cigarette factory.
Just let him continue being anxious for a while. Now he should be able to see that we are teasing Lee Jae Sin. The Royal Committee, in accordance with Article 14 Section 2 of the Royal Family Act, hereby selects Princess Lee Jae Sin for inheritance.
Well, we're on the city reception committee.
Today the boss said our committee should come in and talk things over.
I have here a report of the Surgical Committee of this hospital regarding an operation performed by Dr. Weeks.
Dr. Weeks, it is my unhappy duty to inform you that the Surgical Committee considers your work as unbecoming a resident surgeon of this hospital.
She was chairman of our farewell committee.
Camp committee will call on you in the morning, get you fixed.
The ladies' committee'll call on you, ma'am.
What's the committee you're talking about?
Each one elects a central committee man.
I'm head to the central committee.
No, she was married to the Rotary, the Kiwanis, the Lions, the Moose, the Elks and the Greater Habersville Committee.

News and current affairs

His appointees control everything that matters, from Gazprom to the Central Electoral Committee.
Today, it is almost becoming a new global norm that neither the international committee nor the US is prepared for.
LONDON - Even after the passage of new financial regulations in the United States, the Dodd-Frank Act, and the publication of the Basel Committee's new capital requirements, the financial sector's prospects over the next few years remain highly uncertain.
Then, on the 22 December, as crowds stormed the Central Committee headquarters in Bucharest, Stanculescu arranged for a helicopter to rescue Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu from the building's roof terrace.
One such case belatedly came to the attention of the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
In November, the Committee concluded that Germany had failed to police the Neumann Kaffee Gruppe regarding its complicity in the forced eviction of several villages in Uganda to make way for a large coffee plantation.
They found no remedy, in either Uganda or Germany, for the violation of rights that, according to the Committee, they possess under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Germany is a signatory.
Finally, and perhaps most importantly, there is Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter's compromise proposal.
One involved the wholesale replacement of members of the advisory committee to the National Center for Environmental Health, a part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), without consulting the center's director.
Similar cases involved the CDC's Advisory Committee on Lead Poisoning and Prevention, the Advisory Committee on National Human Research Protections, and the Advisory Committee on Genetic Testing.
A nominee for the National Institutes of Health's Muscular Dystrophy Research Coordinating Committee told of being vetted by a White House staff member.
After being asked about her views on various Bush administration policies, none of them related to the work of the committee, she was asked whether she supports the president's policy on embryonic stem cells.
My colleagues and I, serving on an advisory committee for the Spanish initiative, have recommended that donors pool their funds into a single international account, which we call the Financial Coordination Mechanism (FCM).
He must stand by his two principal demands: nullification of the election and establishment of an impartial committee to rule on the government's violations of the electoral law.
He has increased the power of the Central Committee, which he chairs.
The two of you also went against conventional Israeli thinking by breaking away from your Likud party, greatly weakening the ideological stranglehold that Likud's far-right central committee held on Israeli politics.
Some of those in the army-installed National Reform Council and Constitutional Drafting Committee have a real interest in ensuring that Thailand's next constitution - the 20th since 1932 - will be genuinely democratic.
It, too, conducted an official inquiry, establishing the Macmillan Committee to hear evidence about how poorly British banks served British industry, and how the German model did a much better job at converting savings into industrial finance.
If he and the rest of the Federal Open Market Committee thought that the projected growth of nominal spending in the US was on an appropriate recovery path two months ago, they cannot believe that today.
Nobel laureates such as Martin Luther King, Lech Walesa, and Aung San Suu Kyi are but a few of the many examples that the Nobel Committee has recognized in previous years.
Should the Nobel Committee choose to recognize Liu's courage and sacrifice in articulating these ideals, it would not only draw global attention to the injustice of Liu's 11-year sentence.
In conferring on Liu one of the world's highest honors, the Committee would be signaling once again the importance of human rights and democracy on the one hand, and world peace and international solidarity on the other.
Indeed, the Basel Committee plans to require more capital in the future, though the new requirements will be delayed, owing to concerns about the cost and availability of credit to sustain the recovery.
Many UN members, believing that power within the UN has been shifting from the General Assembly, resist giving up what they regard as its last vestige: control over the budget through the work of the Assembly's Fifth Committee.
By contrast, the BoE's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) has nine members, four of whom are appointed from outside the bank, and all votes are individually recorded; nobody is allowed to hide behind an institutional view.
Hence the strengthening of the active screening mechanism of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US.

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