Sentence examples for string committee from inspiring English sources

I recall my first season (1961) in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra when, to protest the seven-performance and heavy rehearsal schedule, I was on a hastily formed string committee to appeal for "work relief or some financial compensation".

Beyond controlling the purse strings, committees at the corporate center held sway over the engineering and design decisions made in the divisions.

Since his election to the Senate from Chautauqua County in southwest New York, he had filled a string of important committee assignments.

A full review of how to reform regulatory structures is awaiting the conclusion of a string of investigative committees.

But judging by the past performance of a string of similar committees, match-fixing is unlikely to end in a hurry.

On first listen Headlines (Friendship Never Ends) sounds like an archly cynical song, strung together by committee for the sole purpose of maximising the aggressive brand values the Spice Girls worked so maniacally hard to plough through popular culture a decade ago.

His developing expertise led to a string of appointments to committees: in 1993 to the Government's Advisory Committee on Releases to the Environment ( ACRE), in 1998 to the Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes ( ACNFP), and in 2000 to the Agriculture and Environment Biotechnology Commission ( AEBC.

The work and pensions committee published a string of questions yesterday for the pension regulator and trustees of the Carillion pension scheme, amid mounting concerns over why they failed to properly flag concerns last summer after the outsourcer issued a profit warning.

The inquiry by the Commons home affairs select committee follows a string of scandals involving undercover police adopting the identities of dead children, and cultivating what it described as "devastating" long-term relationships with political activists before faking their own disappearances.

In the end, Ashley not only backed down but also made a string of admissions under the committee's questioning, including acknowledging that Sports Direct had broken the law by not paying the minimum wage and confessing that he is struggling to control the company he founded and in which he still owns a majority stake.

Councilmen Bob Blumenfield, Felipe Fuentes and Mitch O'Farrell are not on the committee holding a string of hearings around Los Angeles on whether to increase the citywide minimum wage to $13.25 or $15.25 hourly.