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Example sentences for "grand committee"

  • They gave rise to no discussion in the Convention, but were considered in a grand committee, with other matters, and there is no account of the views which they took of this interesting branch of the powers of Congress.

  • This important question, involved in several distinct propositions, was referred to a grand committee of the States.

  • Counsel being heard for the bill, it was committed to a grand committee on the sixth day of April, when the majority of the tory members quitted the house.

  • The address was presented, the account produced, and the house, in a grand committee, took this affair into consideration.

  • Grand Committee, a Select Committee, or a Joint Committee of both Houses.

  • Every Public Bill not referred to a Grand Committee must be considered in a Committee of the Whole House, and, indeed, the greater part of each session is occupied by this stage of legislation.

  • An Ordinance for the suppression of Blasphemies and Heresies, which had been occupying a Grand Committee of the Commons through September, October, November, and December, had not yet emerged into light.

  • M^r Rutlidge's motion was referred--He then moved that a Grand Committee be appointed to consider the necessity and expediency of the U.

  • Having got Bill referred to Grand Committee, positively agrees to rescind Order, and begin all over again.

  • The judges of the supreme court shall be elected by the two houses in grand committee.

  • The governor, and, in his absence the lieutenant-governor, shall preside in the senate and in grand committee.

  • Governor to preside--when to vote in grand committee.

  • If no candidate has a majority, the two houses in joint assembly (grand committee) elect from the two having the highest numbers of votes.

  • Judges of the supreme court are elected by the two houses in grand committee.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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