Sentence examples for initial committee from inspiring English sources

If anything, the bill -- radically shortchanged from an initial committee proposal -- undermines negotiations to find a compromise among competing insurance, business and labor interests.

Mr. Martin said Mr. Harvey had telephoned and apologized, but he added, "When I voted against the nominee at the initial committee meeting, it was not personal".

The proposed agreement, according to people who have been briefed on the talks, calls for initial committee members to be chosen jointly by Dow Jones and the News Corporation.

In initial committee meetings to decide NCSL policy positions this year, conservative legislators attempted to further capitalize on their electoral victories of 2010 by introducing several destructive policy proposals and issue forums.

The initial committee members who were instrumental in the program's implementation and early activities had left the committee, and the new committee lacked the same organizational strength.

Several other members of the committee shared this concern, and several did not, but the conversation only became heated at the next step, when we tried to identify potential committee members who might have as much credibility in the eyes of industry opponents as the initial committee members could be expected to have in the eyes of nuclear industry supporters.

A: The goal is to set up a system with an initial standing committee that will do a great job at self-sustaining and continuing a chain of these standing committees and study panels over 100 years.

The first test will be on Monday, a day before the session's official opening, when the bill, which was revamped last week to try to garner more support, is scheduled to face an initial Senate committee vote.

Despite some concerns that the bill would be difficult to enforce and could hurt roadside vendors, it recently cleared an initial legislative committee and lawmakers were to debate its merits in the next few days.

"Typically, a BAT official would sit in for the initial interim committee meetings.

We invited a number of leading experts in the area to form an initial editorial committee, and additional reviewers had been invited on demand in order to provide valuable feedback for the authors and review different aspects of the papers.