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committees

noun as in group working on project

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While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.

In 2008, Huckabee raised a little over $16 million, with less than $55,000 coming from political action committees.

This is a job for independent committees, like Bowles-Simpson, not a partisan slugfest.

“He had sat on a hundred different Committees of Responsibility,” writes King.

We tried to become involved with committees that affect us and policing before Ferguson.

Mr. Grierson was, perhaps, the ablest witness before Parliamentary Committees the railway service ever had, which is saying much.

Mr. Pope greatly admired candour, and indeed I found myself that candour always told with the Committees.

Another committee for the same purpose is also in formation, and the two committees will either amalgamate or work together.

These committees within the various colonies became very active and persuasive.

She was called upon several times by committees sent from the revolutionary tribunal for examination.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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