Sentence examples for got a committee from inspiring English sources

Mr. Espada refused to vote with fellow Democrats until he got a committee chairmanship and other perks, yet for months refused to file election paperwork or disclose the names of the donors who had financed his campaign.

It's customary for the National Academy [of Sciences] to weigh in on the appointment for the USGS director, and I know they have already got a committee in place, and are already hard at work.

After the Martin shooting, bills were introduced in Florida to repeal or scale-back the self-defense statute, but none even got a committee hearing.

"You think you're going to show up and get a committee assignment and get in a room and you're going to start doing things.

"We had a consultant who would get a committee together and find out, for example, what colors are showing up in Milan, what colors are showing up in Paris," he recalled.

Sawyer recalled that, after a particularly sly but successful campaign to get a committee of bankers to go along with a particular design, York told him that he had adhered to two principles: "It is fatal to prove a client in the wrong" and "Say nothing when it is unnecessary to speak".

Both are understated, quiet stalwarts in their party conferences, well liked by other members, and not the kind to run over another member to get a committee chairmanship; nor have they been dogged with reports of indiscretion or tomfoolery like so many of their colleagues over the decades.

My experience at CSU made me wary of this "catch-all" term, because it was nearly impossible to get a committee to agree on both how "serious" an act is and how much it "deviates" from accepted practice.

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Patricia Smith, the nominee for solicitor of labor, is about to get a committee vote after having been stuck there since March.

In November 2011, DuMont asked Obama to withdraw his name, indicating that GOP senators were refusing to let him get a committee hearing.