Sentence examples for joint body from inspiring English sources

London councils are setting up a joint body, Capital Letters, to procure housing using collective bargaining and to reduce competition between councils for the same homes.

But the tension appeared to be dissipating, and the Senate accomplished at least one task as a joint body: a standing ovation for Owen H. Johnson, a Long Island Republican who turned 80 on Friday.

In the mid-1990s, Alain Juppé was similarly frustrated by the doctors, but at least he wrested away the task of setting the annual target for social-security spending from the joint body of unions and bosses.

MILK was on the menu in Rome this week at a meeting of the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a joint body of the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the World Health Organisation.

One of the most difficult issues involved a plan to establish a joint body, made up of local Kashmiri leaders, Indians, and Pakistanis, to oversee issues that affected populations on both sides of the Line of Control, such as water rights.

Mr. Churchill's offer, made just seven weeks after he be came Prime Minister, called for a declaration by Britain accepting the principle of a united Ireland and the es tablishment of a joint body to consider constitutional and other details of union.

He presides over the various joint bodies of the Office; he concludes contracts and agreements binding the establishment, and reports to the Board of Directors.

It wants new joint bodies which will give it a seat at the table when EU governments are debating decisions that may affect its interests.

A key goal of this and other reforms is to enhance collaboration between different players, including with industry, even though 90 percent of the CNRS's 1,200 departments are already joint bodies, or units, comprising university and research agency laboratories.

The individual metropolitan boroughs resumed most services which were provided at county level or through joint bodies such as the West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority.

As well as discussing the findings in individual countries, the research team also presented the overall findings to joint bodies with representatives from all three countries.