It could no more have been anthologised by a minor figure than Mozart's work could have been composed by committee.
The text was composed by committee and includes a list of wishes for the future -- "Respect for the earth, peace in the world, forgiveness of past wrongs, a new start".
The Wall Street Journal reported a "highly cautious, bureaucratic process that had the effect of watering down the U.S.'s own intelligence". Both the intelligence analyses prepared for officials and the talking points used by Rice were reportedly composed by committee, with as many as two dozen intelligence officials proposing changes to initial drafts.
Cheesy, dated, humourless and crass, it's a nightmare of stunt-casting, and was apparently composed by a committee of suits, PR execs and press agents.
The Brabazon Committee called for several different aircraft to be developed to specifications composed by the committee for roles felt to fulfil Britain's civilian aviation needs.
The letter was composed by the steering committee of Faculty Against the Sexton Plan, a group of twenty professors who send daily e-mails to some four hundred professors on their Listserv.
CONSIDER this frank greeting in William Gibson's "Spook Country": "I've just checked the number of your Google hits, and read your Wikipedia entry". This is what translates as fame today: a foothold in the ether, an identity composed by a faceless committee of unknown size.
At the ETH this is secured by a selection committee composed by the president of the ETH upon proposal by the department in which the faculty position is located, and in which members from other departments and from outside the ETH constitute a majority, with an independent chairman of the committee, chosen from a pool of such chairs, and a secretary from the staff of the president.
So, for a clinical review, we first asked a committee composed by both forward translators, six psychiatrists (authors), a medical advisor from Pfizer (author) and two other psychiatrists to clinically comment the Portuguese translation, taking into account the original one in English.
Political Action Committees (PACs), composed by special interest groups, regularly adopt names that very effectively conceal whom they are pushing for.
