Sentence examples for were committee from inspiring English sources
noun
A body of one or more persons convened for the accomplishment of some specific purpose, typically with formal protocols
Jean Kennedy Smith and Victoria Reggie Kennedy were committee members.
There were committee assignments to make, negotiating on the filibuster, making calls and having meetings".
Three of the Republican House members who were defeated were committee chairs, lieutenants to the speaker.
While there were committee members willing to consider rescinding the policy, "we thought it was better to work with the policy," she said.
The committees played a major role in promoting colonial unity and in summoning in September 1774 the First Continental Congress (see Continental Congress), a majority of whose delegates were committee members.
In the surprising failure of a bill early last year to extend provisions of the Patriot Act, 18 (or 69 percent) of the Republicans who rejected the measure were committee members and only 9 (35 percent) were freshmen.
Also present were committees for economics, security, and information.
In the subset of protocols for which the investigator responded to the questionnaire (114/142), 46 (40%) were committee-funded.
Among the 142 protocols included, 54 were committee-funded (38%): 26 (42%) were submitted to the national funding scheme and 28 (35%) for HCL-internal applications.
(Libya is committee heaven — there is even a National Committee for Committees).
