Sentence examples for committee table from inspiring English sources

The cabinet secretary swept a hand across the committee table, fingers outstretched, palm outward.

Around the executive committee table an outlandish cast settled in for long, lucrative stints at the top.

Yet it was hard to take Hayatou's pleas seriously, given his lack of appetite for reform for most of his 18 years around the Fifa executive committee table.

Ms. Boxer, who passed around the committee table a large Mason jar of sludge from the spill, also accepted a share of the blame for the Tennessee mess.

The Home Secretary, Theresa May, might have been absent, but she was the spectre at this feast of words and manners, hovering invisibly above the committee table.

In the depths of the Palace of Westminster, beneath chandeliers and in front of an imposing portrait of the Duke of Wellington, Luke Wright stepped in front of a committee table.

We can't just sit around our committee tables and say: Hey presto!

But the big decisions are no longer hammered out around committee tables.

The discussions around the investment committee tables about how social and financial can come together in one value proposition are endlessly fascinating.

Ten days ago, Frank Field, the Labour chairman of the work and pensions select committee, tabled a motion demanding a pause to the "terrifying" cuts.

The real rot set in when, in 1985, the House agriculture committee tabled a hearing called "The Plight of the Family Farmer", and promptly called Jane Fonda, Sissy Spacek and Sally Field to testify on the basis that they had all played farm wives in movies.