9 sentences with 'committee'
Example sentences and phrases with the word committee and other words derived from it.
• « The twelve members of this committee governed France from September 1793 to July 1794 as a dictatorial council, charged with defending the Revolution against both its external enemies and internal rebels. It was highly successful in the former respect, issuing a levée en masse, or total mobilisation for war, which swelled the ranks of the French forces and kept the Austrian and Prussian armies at bay. »
• « Meanwhile, the revolutionary government created a subsistence committee to develop and elaborate a system of price control, requisitioning and monetary regulation, backed by police power. »
• « The committee restored order in the rebel areas by sending its members on missions with instructions for ruthless repression, again backed by violence. »
• « From 1795, political power had shifted back to the revolutionary government, this time to a five-man committee called the Direction. »
• « Officially, Stalin was the "premier" of the Communist party - "the first" - overseeing its central decision-making committee, the politburo. »
• « Even the system of administering the Nobel Peace Prize has become a source of bitter controversy. The committee is based in Oslo, Norway, and is composed of five people elected by the Storting, or Norwegian Parliament. »
• « Of the current five members of the committee, two belong to the ruling Labour Party (Social Democrats) and another is a member of the Socialist Left Party, considered the most radical, but not communist, party. »
• « Many wondered why the Nobel committee seemed oblivious to the Kremlin's inveterate perversion of international peace movements, and its use of front bodies to rush democracies into unilateral disarmament. »
• « A few hours after his appearance before the US Congressional committee investigating the Iran-Contra affair, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North, once a little-known aide to the Ronald Reagan administration's National Security Council (NSC), became a folk hero. »