Sentence examples for permanent committees from inspiring English sources

There are approximately 20 standing (permanent) committees, organized mainly around major policy areas, each having staffs, budgets, and subcommittees.

Each house of Congress has a number of standing (permanent) committees and select (special and temporary) committees.

In Ya'an, these congresses now meet at least yearly and have elected permanent committees to keep local party policies under review.

At the end of the gathering this afternoon, the foreign ministers announced that permanent committees had been formed on refugees, water, regional development and the environment, and that they would report back to the ministers in July.

The group said they would stay until midnight to protest a decision by the presidents of the Lower House and Senate not to form permanent committees until Parliament forms a government.

That could be corrected by giving more, not less, power to MPs for instance by setting up permanent committees with long-serving members, more expert staff and power to compel evidence.As for an election, one is due within a year.

Conference, which established a permanent committee with headquarters in Odessa.

recently voted against setting up a permanent committee to oversee the agencies.

He presided over the new revolutionary government's permanent committee of the National Assembly, obtaining extensive legislative powers.

As increased American aid money pours into Pakistan, a permanent committee of American and Pakistani officials should be formed, Mr. Khan said.

Britain has proposed the creation of a new permanent committee of top ranking officials from the EU defence and foreign ministries.