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Example sentences for "special committee"

  • The work of the Committee of Management of this Hospital is supplemented by the kindly aid of a large Committee of Lady Visitors, and by a Special Committee of Ladies for the management of the Convalescent Home.

  • The sum of £7,000 additional was raised and placed at the disposal of a Special Committee of the Town Council, called the “Art Gallery Purchase Committee.

  • In 1871 a special Committee called “The Sewage Enquiry Committee” was instituted, who recommended the course ultimately adopted, viz.

  • The usual business was transacted, and a special committee appointed to secure favorable legislation.

  • Mr. Pickett presented our petitions, got a special committee, took my bill before it, got a favorable report, and a law was passed to that effect.

  • A Special Committee on Woman Suffrage was appointed, which performed its duty faithfully, and reported unanimously in favor.

  • The Council of State appointed a special committee which, after examining Novosiltzev's project, arrived at the following conclusions: 1.

  • In 1815 the Provisional Government in Warsaw appointed a special committee, under the chairmanship of Count Adam Chartoryski, to consider the agrarian and the Jewish problem.

  • As Congress, at its last session, appointed a special committee to investigate this whole subject during the vacation and report at this session, I have nothing to recommend until their report is read.

  • A special committee of the Senate is investigating this need, and I shall welcome a constructive policy based on their report.

  • It was ordered that a special committee be appointed to take charge of any orphan matters, to investigate, and take the proper steps to secure them the benefits of the Orphans' Guardian Fund.

  • The matter of the solution of the financial problem for the ensuing six moons was referred to a special committee as follows: John D.

  • This matter was referred to a special committee, who reported a code of rules to govern organizers for the ensuing great sun, and to come up for consideration as an amendment to the by-laws of the Great Council at the next Great Sun Council.

  • That a special Committee of three Past Sachems be appointed to investigate the matter of a Widows' and Orphans' Fund and report at the next Great Council.

  • In 1891 a special committee appointed to report on outdoor alms in the town of Hartford, Connecticut, discovered a state of affairs with which nothing revealed in Mr. Coler's statements can for a moment be compared.

  • Critical Essays by Members of the American Economic Association, collected and edited by a Special Committee.

  • The House, the political complexion of which had changed at the recent election, appointed Howard of Michigan, Sherman of Ohio, and Oliver of Missouri a special committee to investigate the Kansas outrages and election frauds.

  • They were referred to a special committee, of which John Randolph, of Virginia, was chairman.

  • Since the Judiciary Committee has not reported our measure for many years and has not given the House an opportunity to discuss it we have asked that a special committee shall be appointed to consider it.

  • To recommend to Congress a special committee to investigate the practical working of woman suffrage where it exists.

  • They did not always have a special committee, they used to be a mere incident, as we now are.

  • The leaders of the National Suffrage Association stated that they would ask for only the usual two hours and would not discuss the general question of woman suffrage but only the need of a special committee.

  • It was voted that a special committee of three on this subject be appointed by the president, which committee shall make the report to the Committee on international relations.

  • Your committee therefore recommends that either it or a special committee be authorized to arrange for such an exhibition and demonstration.

  • The dispute culminated in 1883 when the Trunk Line Association appointed a special committee to consider what the proper adjustment should be.

  • A special committee of five Kahal members was appointed, and was vested with large powers, for the purpose of grappling with the "heresy.

  • I would therefore take the liberty to suggest, that these papers be committed to a special committee.

  • This letter was committed to a special committee.

  • House was that a special committee should be appointed to consider the violations of the liberties and franchises of all the corporations of the kingdom, "and particularly of the city of London.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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