(n.) One or more persons elected or appointed, to whom any matter or business is referred, either by a legislative body, or by a court, or by any collective body of men acting together.
(v. t.) One to whom the charge of the person or estate of another, as of a lunatic, is committed by suitable authority; a guardian.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since MIRD Committee has not published "S" values for Tl-200 and Tl-202, these have been calculated by a computer code and are reported.
(2) But earlier this year the Unesco world heritage committee called for the cancellation of all such Virunga oil permits and appealed to two concession holders, Total and Soco International, not to undertake exploration in world heritage sites.
(3) Of the five committees asked to develop bills, four have completed their work, and the Senate Finance Committee announced today that it will move forward next week.
(4) The committee reviewed the history, original intent, current purpose, and effectiveness of meetings held on the unit; when problems were identified, suggestions for change were formulated.
(5) Neal’s evidence to the committee said Future Fund staff were not subject to the public service bargaining framework, which links any pay rise to productivity increases and caps rises at 1.5%.
(6) Fry's letter was also delivered to the Lausanne headquarters of the International Olympic Committee, by Guillaume Bonnet of the campaign group All Out .
(7) His walkout reportedly meant his fellow foreign affairs select committee members could not vote since they lacked a quorum.
(8) The risks are determined, mainly by expert committees, from the steadily growing information on exposed human populations, especially the survivors of the atomic bombs dropped in Japan in 1945.
(9) The committee is chaired by John Thompson, the board's lead independent director, and includes Microsoft founder and chairman, Bill Gates, as well as other board members Chuck Noski and Steve Luczo.
(10) Nevertheless, Richard Bacon MP, a member of the Public Accounts Committee, who has tirelessly tracked failings in NHS IT, said last night: "I think the chances that Lorenzo will be turned into a credible and popular product are vanishingly small.
(11) He believes the intelligence and security committee (ISC) has enough powers to do its job.
(12) Local and international media and watchdog organisations such as the World Association of Newspapers , Committee to Protect Journalists and Reporters Without Borders have issued statements strongly condemning the prison sentence.
(13) During the 1985 annual meeting of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons in Honolulu, neurosurgical training and practice in India, Korea, Japan, and Australasia were discussed at the International Committee symposium.
(14) Kunduz hospital patients 'burned in beds … even wars have rules', says MSF chief Read more The resolution – which was supported by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and others – requests that Ban present recommendations on measures to prevent attacks and to ensure that those who carry them out are held accountable.
(15) This paper, which draws on the author's experience as chairman of the Committee on Health Care for Homeless People of the Institute of Medicine (IOM), describes what is known about the characteristics of homeless persons and the causes of homelessness, and about the health status of homeless persons, which is often not very good (but not significantly worse, it would appear, than that of other low-income persons).
(16) They’re putting on a heavy sales job as one would expect,” Texas representative Mac Thornberry, the Republican who chairs the House armed services committee, told reporters upon leaving one of the briefings.
(17) Dunne added: “If we find any evidence, we will pass it on to the committees on arms export controls.” No such evidence, until Monday, had been given to parliament.
(18) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
(19) In response to the Advisory Committee on training in Nursing recommendations EONS in association with Marie Curie Memorial Foundation organized a workshop, where representatives of the 12 member states of the EEC, actively involved in cancer nursing education, were invited to prepare a core curriculum in cancer nursing education.
(20) They include Andrew Bennett, who chairs the Commons local government and regions committee, which monitors Mr Prescott's department.
Subcommittee
Definition:
(n.) An under committee; a part or division of a committee.
Example Sentences:
(1) They include comprehensiveness of participation and of areas for review (the review committee should represent all disciplines and programs, and should be concerned with any aspect of center functioning), a problem-review approach in which subcommittees carry out documented studies of issues or problems, and specific provision for feedback and implementation of the results.
(2) This has "nothing to do with any of our businesses," Koch spokespeople were quoted as telling the congressman's staff members in a May 20 letter that Waxman sent to Reps. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), the Energy and Commerce Committee chair, and Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.), who chairs the Energy and Power Subcommittee.
(3) In a submission to a House of Lords EU subcommittee , it said: "Most of the stakeholders consulted believe that opting out of this and relying on alternative arrangements would result in fewer extraditions, longer delays, higher costs, more offenders evading justice and increased risk to public safety."
(4) The Council on Rehabilitative Rheumatology of the American Rheumatism Association, through the Education Subcommittee, surveyed directors of 69 approved rehabilitation medicine residency training programs to assess the nature of training in rehabilitative-rheumatology and whether the directors believed this training to be adequate.
(5) Professor T. McKeown, chairperson of the subcommittee, began his presentation of the subcommittee's 1st report by pointing out that whereas the time that remained for attaining the objective of health for all by 2000 was short, the range of research projects related to health was almost unlimited.
(6) Fragmentation of authority among a multiplicity of committees and subcommittees, especially in the House, contributes to these problems.
(7) The bill, voted through a panel of the house energy and power subcommittee, would compel Obama to over-rule demands for a further review of the project from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and disregard local opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline from landowners along its 1,700-mile route.
(8) Using a three-level approach based upon the patient's requirements for basic, advanced, or specialized medical care and the urgency of transport, the subcommittee was able to derive medical categories necessary for the selection and utilization of air ambulance services.
(9) If we’re going to put the resources into it, then it needs to be something that supports reform, whether that be housing, education, health services.” The proposal is being considered by the Aboriginal affairs cabinet subcommittee, which Redman sits on along with Barnett and Aboriginal affairs minister Peter Collier.
(10) The inquiry into reforms of the MP standards regime by a parliamentary subcommittee was set up in the wake of the scandal over former culture secretary Maria Miller's mortgage expenses.
(11) The Medical Research Education Subcommittee of the American Rheumatism Association surveyed a random selection of large and small programs in internal medicine and family practice residency programs in order to evaluate their rheumatology training.
(12) In 1959 a US Senate subcommittee began investigating payola within the music business.
(13) In summary, an effort to increase the specificity and replicability of assessments of disability has been made by a subcommittee on permanent psychiatric disability, consisting of four forensic psychiatrists, three clinical and forensic psychologists, a medical sociologist, a workers' compensation judge and a vocational rehabilitation expert.
(14) In 1981 the American Association of Public Health Dentists' Subcommittee on Preventive Periodontics called for a national initiative toward controlling periodontal disease, including the development of national policy statements from national dental organizations and the development of education programs for the public and the profession.
(15) Described here is a protocol for the evaluation and immediate treatment of airway injuries that is consistent with the guidelines of the Subcommittee of Advanced Trauma Life Support of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma.
(16) Yet Pompeo took a place on the House intelligence committee and sits on its CIA and NSA subcommittees, where he has positioned himself as a vigorous advocate of the most hardline priorities of both agencies.
(17) The four panel members selected by the chair of the independent inquiry, Justice Lowell Goddard, are Drusila Sharpling, an inspector with Her Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary; Prof Alexis Jay, author of the report into the Rotherham child sex scandal; Ivor Frank, an expert in family and human rights law; and Malcolm Evans, chair of the United Nations subcommittee for the prevention of torture.
(18) Auxiliary health workers in primary schools, health centers, and subcommittees for sociosanitary development are responsible for educating the public about schistosomiasis.
(19) McLoughlin said: “I believe that in the summer of next year we will be in a position to have done the extra work … I hope that we will be able to make a firm recommendation to the cabinet subcommittee next summer.” Downing Street’s promised response to the Davies commission’s recommendation was watered down on Thursday to simply reaffirming the need for more airport capacity in south-east England.
(20) This is the kind of back and forth that happens to people" who apply for tax-exempt status, Shulman told a House Ways and Means subcommittee.