Use committee in a sentence
Sentences starting with committee
- Committee on Propagation of the Tradition! [5]
Sentences ending with committee
- I've carried out your--instructions--sent for the committee. [9]
- This device originated with the resourceful Mr. Theodore Watling, and if it had not had the approval of Mr. Miller Gorse, it would never have got any farther than the judiciary committee. [9]
- How I reddened when he called me so before all the committee. [9]
- Trumbull says it was not in the bill when it went to the committee. [7]
- Resolved, That N. W. Edwards, A. G. Henry, James H. Matheny, John C. Doremus, and James C. Conkling be appointed a Whig Central State Committee, with authority to fill any vacancy that may occur in the committee. [7]
- I have long thought that it would be well for it to report its condition to the General Assembly, and that cases might occur, when it might be proper to make an examination of its affairs by a committee. [7]
- In addition to the personal regard Mr. Pardriff professed to have for the Honourable Hilary, it maybe well to remember that Austen's father was, among other, things, chairman of the State Committee. [9]
- Chauncey Weed, for the Committee. [9]
- Brush Bascom, for the Committee. [9]
- Take him to the Committee! [9]
Short sentences using committee
- Who are on that committee? [9]
- They are the strike committee. [9]
- Here's the committee, I think. [9]
- Executive Committee "Clay Club. [7]
- Committee. [5]
Sentences containing committee two or more times
- This legislature sat to him as a sort of advisory committee of three hundred and fifty: an expensive advisory committee to the people, relic of an obsolete form of government. [9]
- Straightway the newspapers said: "Under the guise of appointing a committee to investigate the late Mr. Dilworthy, the Senate yesterday appointed a committee to investigate his accuser, Mr. Noble. [5]
- The bill for raising additional military force for limited time, etc., was reported from Committee on judiciary; similar bills had been reported from Committee on, Public Lands and Military Committee. [7]
- The motion to elect officers was passed, and under it Mr. Gaston was chosen chairman, Mr. Blake, secretary, Messrs. Holcomb, Dyer, and Baldwin a committee on nominations, and Mr. R. M. Howland, purveyor, to assist the committee in making selections. [5]
- They appoint a committee to investigate, and that committee hears evidence three weeks, and all the witnesses on one side swear that the accused took money or stock or something for his vote. [5]
- There was not a friend to the measure in the House committee when I began, and not a friend in the Senate committee except old Dil himself, but they were all fixed for a majority report when I hauled off my forces. [5]
More example sentences with the word committee in them
- You have elected your committee of your free wills, and they have claims before you. [9]
- He will help you, I am sure, with forming your committee and arranging, if you will insist on doing this thing. [11]
- How soon can you call your committee together? [9]
- I said that, without remarking upon the singularity of such a question, coming, as it did, from a member of that same government, I would inform him that I was clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology. [5]
- Count Ilya Rostov with the other members of the committee sat facing Bagration and, as the very personification of Moscow hospitality, did the honors to the prince. [2]
- One or two wise men, however, were able to secure order long enough to have the resolution passed for forming a Local Interests Committee whose duty it would be to see that the people were not sacrificed to a "soulless plutocracy. [11]
- As these gentlemen will tell you, if I'd had my wish I'd have had you on every important committee in the House. [9]
- Old Ezra Graves, who's on the prudential committee, told Ephraim they ought to get you. [9]
- What alterations, or what provisions in the way of altering, were going on in committee, Trumbull had no means of knowing, until the altered bill was reported back. [7]
- All the quality were in the country, of course, save only four gentlemen of the local Patriots' committee, of which Captain Daniel was a member, and with whom he had an appointment at ten. [9]
- He says there were certain modifications made in the bill in committee that he did not vote for. [7]
- If rejected, it went into the heap on the left; if approved, it was laid apart, to be submitted to the Committee for their judgment. [6]
- From Mrs. Hammond we learn that on the 31st (the day after Johannesburg heard of the invasion), "The Reform Committee repudiates Dr. Jameson's inroad. [5]
- Suddenly the inspirer was transformed into the man of affairs who calmly proposed the organization of a strike committee, three members of which were to be chosen by each nationality. [9]
- But if there was to be a reference, he desired to introduce his bill embracing the three propositions, thus enabling the committee and the House to act at the same time, whether favorably or unfavorably, upon all. [7]
- If a paper was rejected by the Secretary, it did not come before the Committee, but was returned to the author, if he sent for it, which he commonly did. [6]
- But no vote was given for a consideration--at least this was the report of an investigating committee later on. [4]
- No vigilance committee was ever more determined and secret and organised than the unconverted civic patriots, who were determined to restore Jansen to its old-time condition. [11]
- But what we wanted to speak to you about was this," he continued, as Mr. Crewe showed signs of breaking in, "those committee appointments you desired. [9]
- Mr. Jameson of Wantage moves that the report of the Committee be accepted, and on this motion a roll-call is ordered. [9]
- I had a visit yesterday from the society's committee by way of discipline, because we have a piano in the house, which is against the rules. [5]
- The committee, in view of these objections, has been solicitous to frame a bill which would not be obnoxious to them in principle or in practical effect. [7]
- By a general view of the resolution, it will be seen that a principal object of the committee is to examine into, and ferret out, a mass of corruption supposed to have been committed by the commissioners who apportioned the stock of the Bank. [7]
- But suppose you understand that this coroner's jury is going to turn out to be a vigilance committee in disguise, who will hear testimony for an hour and then hang the murderer on the spot? [5]
- Fifteen applicants were under consideration for the position, and the prudential committee had so far been unable to declare that any of them were completely qualified. [9]
- From that day to this I have been a devoted and hard-working member of the heaven-born institution, the International Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to Authors, and now I am laboring with Carnegie's Simplified Committee, and with my heart in the work . [5]
- In short, owing to the pressing nature of the occasion, the judge would take the liberty of calling the committee together immediately. [9]
- You'd go 'straight to the Committee, or to the Interior office, I suppose? [5]
- I ask you to remember, while certain amendments were made which he disapproved of, but which a majority of the committee voted in, he has himself told us that in this particular the alterations and modifications were made by him, upon consultation with Toombs. [7]
- A committee came to my boarding-house and told me, and there was the deuce to pay, right off. [9]
- Instead of going to Jethro, he went to Heth Sutton, and Heth got the bill as far as the Committee on Corporations, and there she's been ever since, with our friend Chauncey Weed, who's whispering over there. [9]
- He was ready to do what he could to help an entertainment along, if he could do it in his own way--an original way, sometimes, and not always gratifying to the committee, whose plans were likely to be prearranged. [5]
- But, aside from this view of the subject, I would ask, if the committee which this resolution proposes to appoint are to examine into the Constitutionality of the Bank? [7]
- Let us pursue this matter a little farther, and form a committee of investigation. [9]
- Jethro saw this thing coming about a year ago, and he took the precaution to have Chauncey Weed and the rest of the Committee in his pocket--and of course Heth Sutton's always been there. [9]
- It is true they did place my name, though without authority, upon the committee, and afterward wrote me to attend the meeting of the committee; but I refused to do so, and I never had anything to do with that organization. [7]
- The first thing, therefore, was to see that the Committee was made up of persons known to the public. [6]
- The Legislature appropriated the sum of five thousand dollars for a statue in bronze, and a committee was appointed to procure it. [4]
- Twenty-four hours later the story was all over the village that Maurice Kirkwood was the subject of a strange, mysterious, unheard-of antipathy to something, nobody knew what; and the whole neighborhood naturally resolved itself into an unorganized committee of investigation. [6]
- He has made the statement that he and his committee are giving to the Pingsquit bill and other measures--some other measures--their undivided attention. [9]
- Yes means that the report of the Committee will be accepted, and that the Pingsquit bill will not pass. [9]
- Would he defend the prudential committee, or would he declare for the teacher? [9]
- The attention of the proper committee of the House has, I am informed, been already directed to the preparation of a bill for this purpose. [7]
- News came to the Pacific coast that the Vigilance Committee in Montana (whither Slade had removed from Rocky Ridge) had hanged him. [5]
- He thought of the meetings of a committee of which Berg was a member. [2]
- The Report of the last Committee had been signed by the Honorable, ___________late __________ of ____________, as Chairman. [6]
- If that is the idea, let me recommend the Senate Committee on Conchology to hire somebody else. [5]
- It was about the hour, now, for the chairman of the House Committee on Benevolent Appropriations to make his appearance, and Laura stepped to the door to reconnoiter. [5]
- Mr. Sykes (of the firm of Sykes & Newton, the Allen House Pharmacy) replied that he had read the letter to the committee and that it had set those gentlemen right who had not before understood the situation. [5]
- This always distressed the committee, who saw a large profit to their venture in the prestige of his fame. [5]
- Both were on the committee which had the care of the Library and attended to the purchase of books. [6]
- Another member of the committee was that comfortable Mr. Dodd, with the tuft of yellow beard, the hardware dealer whom we have seen at the baseball game. [9]
- The Chairman of the Committee on Benevolent Appropriations rose and made his report, and just then a blue-uniformed brass-mounted little page put a note into his hand. [5]
- Trumbull has written the committee here to have a set of appointments made for him commencing here in Springfield, on the 11th of Sept., and to extend throughout the south half of the State. [7]
- The members of the committee file out of the room, lower right. [9]
- He accepted, and the committee departed, followed by young Tom. [5]
- As far as the committee can at present ascertain, the following seem to have been the principal grounds of dissatisfaction in this experiment: (1) The legal responsibility of postmasters receiving newspaper subscriptions, or of their sureties, was not defined. [7]
- The chairman of the committee brought in his report. [5]
- I remembered that the committee all wore plain and sober clothes, and carried no swords. [9]
- Mr. Dodd explained that they wished a little meeting of the committee. [9]
- It being plain that Senator Dilworthy's statement was rigidly true, and this fact being strengthened by his adding to it the support of "his honor as a Senator," the Committee rendered a verdict of "Not proven that a bribe had been offered and accepted. [5]
- Now, I placed that harmless and very justifiable stipulation before the committee the other day; they carried it to headquarters and it was accepted there. [5]
- Then came letters telling of Mr. Dilworthy's struggles with a stubborn majority in his own Committee in the Senate; of how these gentlemen succumbed, one by one, till a majority was secured. [5]
- You could never take time from your great duties to accept the invitations of our literary committee, alas! [9]
- Resolved, That A. T. Bledsoe, S. T. Logan, and A. Lincoln be appointed a committee to prepare an address to the people of the State. [7]
- Let my reader suspend his judgment until he has read the paper I have referred to, which was drawn up by a Committee of the Royal Academy of the Biological Sciences. [6]
- You have been summoned by the Committee on the Conduct of the War to attend here, which, of course, you will do. [7]
- He knew that such a strike as this had engendered bitterness, there had been much suffering, sacrifice undoubtedly on both sides, but he was sure, if Mr. Antonelli and the Committee would accept their services here he was interrupted. [9]
- If I have succeeded, open the sack and summon the Committee on Propagation and Preservation of the Hadleyburg Reputation. [5]
- It had been submitted to the Committee, and though it struck them as out-of the-wayish, it had been approved. [11]
- He wanted to state to gentlemen who might have entertained such impressions, that the Committee on the Post-office was composed of five Whigs and four Democrats, and their report was understood as sustaining, not impugning, the position taken by the Postmaster-General. [7]
- Could Miss Wetherell start in at once, provided the committee agreed? [9]
- Scotty was a stalwart rough, whose customary suit, when on weighty official business, like committee work, was a fire helmet, flaming red flannel shirt, patent leather belt with spanner and revolver attached, coat hung over arm, and pants stuffed into boot tops. [5]
- Also, in a speech, Reformer Lionel Phillips informs the public that the Reform Committee Delegation has "been received with courtesy by the Government Commission," and "been assured that their proposals shall be earnestly considered. [5]
- Toward these, who sought to act as go-betweens in the conflict, Antonelli was contemptuous; he behaved like the general of a conquering army, and his audacity was reflected in the other leaders, in Rolfe, in the Committee itself. [9]
- Who was that silly body that wanted Burns to alter "Scots wha hae," so as to lengthen the last line, thus Here is a little poem I sent a short time since to a committee for a certain celebration. [6]
- Suppose the committee should find it true, can they redress the injured individuals? [7]
- He reconsidered and sent an acceptance, agreeing to speak, as the committee had requested. [5]
- Clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology, Dr. To consultation with Secretary of War ............ $50 To consultation with Secretary of Navy ........... $50 To consultation with Secretary of the Treasury ... $50 Cabinet consultation ...................No charge. [5]
- I expect to see the chairman of the committee to-day, Mr. [5]
- I want to say that my conscience has not been clear since, as a member of the prudential committee, I gave my consent to the dismissal of Miss Wetherell. [9]
- Sadly the family sat down to supper without her, and after supper Mr. Merrill sent a message to his club that he could not attend a committee meeting there that evening. [9]
- The meeting-house, you remember, had a committee for seating people according to their quality. [4]
- Let those who rely upon the numbers of their testimonials, as being alone sufficient to prove the soundness and stability of a medical novelty, digest the following from the report of the Perkinistic Committee. [6]
- He moved the reference of the petition to the proper committee. [5]
- Now the contest raged hotter than ever--for the authority that compels order when the House sits as a House, is greatly diminished when it sits as Committee. [5]
- However, Stobo was publicly thanked by a committee of the Assembly of Virginia, and was allowed his arrears of pay for the time of his captivity. [11]
- Time to report progress from the committee of the whole," and the Senator beamed with his own congressional wit. [5]
- This afternoon the President of the United States gave an audience to a committee of colored men at the White House. [7]
- He inquired what position I held, and I said I was clerk of the Senate Committee on Conchology. [5]
- There was one portion of the argument of the gentleman from Indiana, the chairman of the Committee on Territories [Mr. Smith], which he wished to take occasion to say that he did not view as unsound. [7]
- He ended by pointing out the significance of the fact that the committee had given no hearings; by declaring that if the bill became a law, it would inevitably react upon the heads of those who were responsible for it. [9]
- This matter was placed in the hands of a committee to determine where the guilt lay and the degree of it, and also to suggest the punishment. [5]
- After a short personal intercourse with you, gentlemen of the committee, I cannot say I think you desire this effect to follow your attitude; but I assure your that both friends and enemies of the Union look upon it in this light. [7]
- Thus the day passed, and the gentlemen of the Lovejoy and Duncan factions sat, as tight as ever in their seats, and the Truro Franchise bill still slumbered undisturbed in Mr. Chauncey Weed's committee. [9]
- Regretful resolutions were passed and various committees appointed; among others, a committee of one was deputed to call on the minister, a fragile, gentle, spiritual new fledgling from an Eastern theological seminary, and as yet unacquainted with the ways of the mines. [5]
- We have his own word that these alterations were made by him, and not by the committee. [7]
- Goodson looked him over, like as if he was hunting for a place on him that he could despise the most; then he says, 'So you are the Committee of Inquiry, are you? [5]
- Rossmore thought they ought to be sent home with a committee and resolutions,--at once. [5]
- The central committee or authority, or whatever it might be called, would be an extraordinary despotism, tempered only by the idea that it could be overturned every twenty-four hours. [4]
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