Sentence examples for the initial committee from inspiring English sources

Mr. Martin said Mr. Harvey had telephoned and apologized, but he added, "When I voted against the nominee at the initial committee meeting, it was not personal".

The initial committee members who were instrumental in the program's implementation and early activities had left the committee, and the new committee lacked the same organizational strength.

Several other members of the committee shared this concern, and several did not, but the conversation only became heated at the next step, when we tried to identify potential committee members who might have as much credibility in the eyes of industry opponents as the initial committee members could be expected to have in the eyes of nuclear industry supporters.

The proposed agreement, according to people who have been briefed on the talks, calls for initial committee members to be chosen jointly by Dow Jones and the News Corporation.

If anything, the bill -- radically shortchanged from an initial committee proposal -- undermines negotiations to find a compromise among competing insurance, business and labor interests.

"Typically, a BAT official would sit in for the initial interim committee meetings.

In initial committee meetings to decide NCSL policy positions this year, conservative legislators attempted to further capitalize on their electoral victories of 2010 by introducing several destructive policy proposals and issue forums.

And presiding over the initial steering-committee meeting was Laura herself, a 26-year-old retail manager.

If, after the initial review, the committee finds no problems, then it transmits its conclusions to Congress.

The initial response from committee Democrats on Tuesday night suggested that Mr. Mukasey had not assuaged their concerns.

"Not having a library is like not having a firehouse or a school," said Rosemarie Ryba, Rebecca's mother and one of the Girl Scout leaders and a member of the initial start-up committee.