Sentence examples for long committee from inspiring English sources

Hand-to-hand politics is like American football (yes, the Super Bowl is in 10 days' time): long committee meetings interrupted by brutal, brief brawls.

In her long committee tenure, Ms. Waters positioned herself to the left of fellow Democrats, making her name on issues like affordable housing and foreclosure prevention.

The Think Long Committee for California, assembled by Nicolas Berggruen, a rich investor, and consisting of stalwarts from right, left and centre in Californian politics, differs from its ill-fated congressional equivalent.

The fact that none of that exists now raises a question: if these legislators are not on the floor and they are not burdened by long committee meetings, where are they?

Dr. James J. Mongan, who was also on the staff of the Long committee and is now the president of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, called catastrophic insurance a "good plan for the middle class".

One late night as we ploughed through a long committee stage, he was quoting Gilbert and Sullivan to a House of nine souls – I told him to sing it, which he did.

An hours-long committee hearing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, which was by turns provocative, hyperbolic and emotional, marked the launch of an effort by House Republicans to defund Planned Parenthood.

At the end of the exchange the Energy Committee's chairman, James Wright of Watertown, noted, "You have just made this the longest committee meeting we've had".

Dr. Stapel was able to operate for so long, the committee said, in large measure because he was "lord of the data," the only person who saw the experimental evidence that had been gathered (or fabricated).

All of this takes a whole day, because even though long time committee member Joe Biden has rambled on to another setting, there is a whole set of members ready to fill his verbosity gap.

In terms of how long these committees have been established, 83% of high complexity hospitals have a committee actively working for 5 or more years, while only 39% of low complexity hospitals have a committee that has been working for five or more years.