Sentence examples for overlapping committees from inspiring English sources

In a cumbersome legacy of the pre-9/11 era, Congress oversees the Department of Homeland Security with a welter of overlapping committees and competing legislative proposals.

Within those legislatures, a system of overlapping committees dominated by powerful chairmen creates a plethora of veto points where well-organized special interests can smother or distort a bill meant to benefit a large but amorphous public.

Leadership is conducted across all areas by 11 overlapping committees.

Symptoms of bacterial and viral respiratory infections can overlap, the committee said.

"There are too many committees with overlapping jurisdiction, which wastes time and makes it difficult for meaningful oversight and reform," Mr. Bush said.

The membership overlap between committees may have a profound impact on political outcomes, much as connections between boards of directors of corporations can influence business deals.

The knowledge uptake process, reflecting overlapping, iterative cycles of collaborative learning, benefited from consistent dialogue between the committee and technical team.

Besides heading the secretariat, he was also member of the powerful Politburo and of many other interlocking and overlapping committees an arch-bureaucrat engaged in quietly outmaneuvering brilliant rivals, including Trotsky and Grigory Zinovyev, who despised such mundane organizational work.

"The projects are overlapping.

Everything is overlapping now".

There are overlapping jurisdictions.