Sentence examples for committees were able from inspiring English sources

As a result of the decisions, independent committees were able to spend more than $80 million in California's 2014 election — an eightfold increase over 2002.

Those provisions do not apply to the political parties, however, so the GOP and its county committees were able to make much larger donations, in one case giving a $38,000 check to Shirley Horton, then an Assembly candidate from San Diego and now a member of that body.

Thus, in ExFOS, committees were able to approve treatment with teriparatide regardless of fracture history.

Similarly, the congressional committees are able to exert some influence on the budget during its preparation.

Committees are able to order the production of documents and the appearance of witnesses (powers that are in practice used very sparingly).

The results described here demonstrate that NHS research ethics committees are able to effectively monitor publication and outcome reporting bias.

"If the select committee were able to come up with a proposal that did bring in new revenue that was going to be good for the country," and if the proposal also included changes in entitlement programs, "I would support it, I would absolutely support it," said Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska.

In the audience's response to particular comments of the six Sierra Leoneans giving evidence, (ie loud applause) the select committee were able to tell which comments had particular resonance with the wider Sierra Leonean diaspora and were backed by particularly strong feeling.

Will members of the bipartisan super committee be able to reach a compromise?

The leak last Friday evening came before the committee was able to release the memo publicly.

"Despite the small number of surviving examples, the selection committee was able to find quite a few excellent cars".