Sentence examples for committee were less from inspiring English sources

The ranking senators on the committee were less circumspect in their criticism of the House farm bill, which is scheduled for a full vote next week.

It's fair to say that MPs on the House of Commons business committee were less than impressed when she turned down an invite to attend their hearings on the Cadbury deal.

But even the Republicans on the committee were less than forgiving, and in a dramatic ending tonight to 13 hours of testimony, the committee's chairman, William L. Gormley, accused Mr. Verniero of misleading the panel during its hearings two years ago on his nomination to the State Supreme Court.

Democratic senators on the hearing committee were less kind to Sessions.

While the police are more than happy to assume C-13's new powers, the civilians before the committee were less-than thrilled: "Young people deserve to be protected from cyberbullying, but they also deserve to be protected and respected for their privacy," said Fahd Alhattab, a representative of the Boys and Girls Club of Canada who were, otherwise, supportive of the bill.

Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and a member of the Senate's banking committee, was less enthusiastic.

"Mr. Chairman, with all due respect, Mr. Plofsky, typically the language that we're accustomed to in this committee is less than flammatory and I think that the process deserves everybody's respect," Mr. Roraback said.

But this was an unusual undertaking for an elementary school, and when the city decided in January to replace existing school districts with larger jurisdictions known as regions, the committee was less sure how to proceed.

But I can promise you that any committee is less funny than you and I combined to the negative second power.

The committee is less powerful than its Senate counterpart (the Senate Foreign Relations Committee) because only the Senate has the constitutional authority to approve or block appointments and treaties.

The remaining two committees were less than a year old at the time of the survey and both were linked to historically disadvantaged academic institutions.