Sentence examples for committees apart from inspiring English sources

Recently two effective select committee chairmen, Chris Mullin of the Home Affairs Select Committee and Peter Luff of the Agriculture Committee, have been lured away by the offer of junior front-bench jobs.Select committees, apart from the Public Accounts Committee which can draw on the Comptroller and Auditor General's staff, are also handicapped by lack of resources.

That legislation has underscored a broader issue that sets the House and Senate intelligence committees apart: The Senate committee has proven far more partisan.

The network of Guadalupan committees fell apart, and the concern about Mexicans gave way to the larger challenge of attracting and ministering to all Latinos.

But in the end England secured only one vote among the 22 executive committee members apart from that of their own Fifa vice-president, Geoff Thompson.

Tony "Three Brains" Wright, the only committee member apart from Mr Leigh who probably thinks he should have had Mr Blair's job, deplored the declining quality of white papers.

And yet a Home Office official, David Greaves, told a House of Lords committee that, apart from two industrial cleaners and a "small number" of substances used to make medicines, "none of the other approximately 300 new psychoactive substances that have been reported to the EMCDDA have commercial or industrial uses".

A recent report by the House of Commons education committee found that apart from a single incident there was "no evidence of extremism or radicalisation" in the Birmingham schools investigated, including Park View.

It seems as if the committee chose sports, apart from karate, that would allow developed nations to add to their medal tally and have almost nothing to do with their global popularity.

Ms Snowe apart, the committee voted strictly on party lines: 13 Democrats in favour and nine Republicans against.

But no more.Cost apart, the committee's most controversial recommendation is for conscription to be all-but phased out.

The Conservatives are now pressing for an investigation by the Commons Standards and Privileges committee.Britain has stood apart from the move in many other western democracies to increase public funding of political parties, relying instead on limits to campaign spending and a ban on paid advertising.