Sentence examples for committee stuff from inspiring English sources

At the moment, if I can keep the committee stuff under control" – he has recently been elected president of the Campaign to Protect Rural England – "things are fine". The 1982 Penguin anthology that he edited with Blake Morrison gave Motion his first experience of shaping, or at least mapping, the contemporary poetry world.

"Yes, I know they're going to talk about grading papers and committee assignments, but I've seen enough of the top professors to know they never change their lectures, their graduate students do all their grading, and the committee stuff is a waste of time, anyway," he says.

Rather, Republicans on the committee stuffed the panel with about 300 proposed amendments, nearly 200 from Shelby and Corker alone.

You can open and close schools, set up advisory committees, stuff them with whoever you want, sack any committee member and make sure such committees recommend your or your party's line.

John Griswold of Commonfund thinks that some investment committees, stuffed with alumni, may be starting to lose track of the risks their endowments are taking.All endowments are finding it harder to hold on to their best people.

Mr Rusbridger told the committee: "There's stuff in there about Iraq, Afghanistan, we're not even going to look at it.

But for others, I know, committees are the stuff of life.

Mr. Jaworski handed the committee a briefcase stuffed with 800 pages of documents, 13 White House tape recordings, and a "road map," essentially an index to the material.

Because I was on the committee I helped organise stuff and gave talks, and that really improved my people skills and confidence.

First, Brown says, UC needs to spend existing dollars more wisely — "reduce the university's cost structure, while increasing [student] access and quality". He wants Napolitano to create a committee to study such stuff.

This is bravely contrarian even for Greenpeace: it's hard to think of any other body that feels that what the EU needs for better decision-making is another committee that can be stuffed with special interests.