Most have set up "political action committees"—pressure groups that can raise big donations from businesses and individuals to fund speaking tours and the like.
Wilson acknowledged that representatives of the organizing committee put pressure on Carpenter to allow them to use the bird.
It would take the highly unlikely event of an almost unanimous rejection of Patten by the committee to pressure Downing Street into a change of heart.
Providing the committee resists pressure to water down that call, it will be yet another influential voice urging that the UK-Saudi arms tap be turned off.
In December, a congressional committee piled pressure on the CDC by launching an investigation into how it drew up the guidelines.
The Senate banking committee, under pressure from Secretary of State John Kerry, agreed to put a brief pause on its bill to avoid spoiling the first bargaining session in Geneva.
The United Nations secretary general, Kofi Annan, established the independent committee under pressure in April in response to allegations that United Nations officials and diplomats had taken bribes from Saddam Hussein's government while administering or overseeing the program.
The coalition also said it was forming a committee to pressure the United Nations to stop all aid to official Syrian institutions, a move that could further hamper the delivery of aid that is already challenged by the dangers of moving around the country.
The workers say that, in response to the worker committee's pressure, the carwash has improved conditions for those who complained (but not necessarily for the rest of the crew) — paying them for their full eight hours and giving a one-hour lunch break and one-week paid vacation.
Tuesday he canceled this week's scheduled meetings of the intelligence committee as pressure mounted for him to step aside.
The Submission gives the impression of being underpinned by a deep knowledge of municipal politics, of committees and pressure groups, and its best scenes are those that inhabit this quasi-official sphere.
