Sentence examples for former committees from inspiring English sources

The House speaker, David Wilkins, said he was sending them there to achieve party balance on their former committees, not as punishment.

In May 1795, when an obscure deputy demanded the arrest of all the members of the former committees and named Carnot, he was saved by another deputy who shouted, "He organized the victory".

As a former committee head, however, Mr. Recabarren was a marked man.

Still, former committee members said that it represented a "stealth bailout".

John D. Dingell of Michigan, a Democrat and former committee chairman, said the authorization was "a fishing expedition".

Daniel Jones, a former committee staffer who led the torture inquiry, criticized the preservation as inadequate.

She was a tech-savvy former committee researcher for the Pennsylvania Senate when she left to teach.

A former committee chairman had described the 2002 prize to Mr. Carter as a "kick in the legs" to Mr. Bush.

Mr. Jones, a former committee staff member, is very close to Matt Rhoades, Mr. Romney's campaign manager, and has been advising the campaign for several months.

A person familiar with the ethics committee's deliberations said that the three former committee members signed off on the decision to exonerate Mr. Ward.

Many former committee members, as well as current and former METI officials, say that bureaucrats not only tightly choreographed the topics for discussion by the committees, but also wrote the final reports on the committees' findings.