Sentence examples for prestigious body from inspiring English sources

Another day, another urgent report by a prestigious body of health professionals demanding that something be done about obesity.

The House of Commons public accounts committee (est 1861) has long been a prestigious body, one whose ranks ambitious and sufficiently numerate MPs have ached to join.

This is believed to be the first time a member of the prestigious body, set up to advise the monarch, has resigned on a point of principle.

Jane Merrick Prescott quits in press protest John Prescott last night explained why he has resigned from the Privy Council, the prestigious body that advises the Queen, over the Government's plans on press regulation.

When, in 2009, the US Bicycling Hall of Fame wanted to relocate from Somerville, New Jersey, it chose Davis but, if Davis thought securing this prestigious body would arrest cycling's slide, it was mistaken.

This led Al Azhar, a university and Sunni Islam's most prestigious body, to certify that the beer was halal, or permitted for consumption by Muslims, a ruling that gave Fayrouz a corner on the nonalcoholic beer market throughout the Muslim world.

"The merger is not only a cultural and strategic catastrophe, because it will mean the destruction of two prestigious bodies of sound, but in the long term it would seem that the economic arguments behind it are unfounded as over time it will not lead to any savings," said Dieter Schickling, a former head of music programming at SDR.

You would also need to give evidence of your ability to attract your own funding, in particular from the Research Councils and other prestigious bodies.

And the many recent reports from prestigious bodies arguing that "American students are falling behind in science, and... [that] we need to train more to retain our competitive edge, are missing the key point," he insists.

In the past few years, reports by several prestigious bodies have warned that an impending shortage of scientists, engineers, and technical personnel at least partly caused by inadequate K-12 science education threatens the nation's long-standing scientific leadership in an increasingly competitive, globalized world.

"The United States Senate is often called the most prestigious deliberative body in the world," Mr. Forrester said, furrowing his brow.