What is "committees"

Usage examples of "committees".

That morning three thousand shoemakers met in the Lyceum Hall in Lynn and set up committees of 100 to post the names of scabs, to guard against violence, to make sure shoes would not be sent out to be finished elsewhere.

Washington after discussions like this, she had increased admiration for the men all down the line who made aviation possible: the big companies that made the planes, the Senate committees that paid for them, the generals and admirals who fought to get the right ones, the gallant young men who flew them, and then that special breed of quiet supermen who drank beer in the kitchen on Saturday night and tested the untried planes on Monday morning.

Most likely he was a committee, but even in committees it takes some one person with insight and courage to urge upon his companions the right course of action, and then to defend it against challenge.

Because our people dominate the committees that select schoolbooks for California and Texas, and what the big states do, the little ones will have to follow.

It was a journey the general had made many times in order to testify before various Senate and House committees on military policy.

We have to walk a very narrow path in telling the truth to the various committees and at the same time keep out of trouble with the administration.

Deputies, which answer to our Select Committees of the House of Commons, and are presided over by self-chosen Presidents.

They established, therefore, in all the districts where it was possible Committees of Permanence in connection with us, the Central Committee, and composed either of Representatives or of faithful citizens.

The Committees of Correspondence of Boston and other towns welcomed this gathering, but warned against destroying private property.

Congressional committees came in and took thousands of pages of testimony.

Labor-management committees were set up in five thousand factories, as a gesture toward industrial democracy, but they acted mostly as disciplinary groups for absentee workers, and devices for increasing production.

He and his fellow Communists organized block committees of Unemployment Councils in 1932 which got rent relief for needy people.

In Tifton, Georgia, and Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1977, blacks and whites served together on the union committees of their plants.

In 1975, congressional committees in the House and Senate began investigations of the FBI and CIA.

Congressional investigating committees nor the press nor the trial of Colonel Oliver North, who oversaw the contra aid operation, got to the critical questions: What is U.