What I want is to have this evidence come before Congress and if the Attorney General does not report it, as I am very sure he won't, as he has refused to do anything of the kind, I then wish that a committee of seven Representatives be appointed with power to take the evidence.

In BrE, collective nouns can take either singular ( formal agreement ) or plural ( notional agreement ) verb forms, according to whether the emphasis is on the body as a whole or on the individual members respectively ; compare a committee was appointed with the committee were unable to agree.

In 1936, Whorf was appointed Honorary Research Fellow in Anthropology at Yale, and he was invited by Franz Boas to serve on the committee of the Society of American Linguistics ( later Linguistic Society of America ).

The selection process for the winner of the prize commences with the formation of an advisory committee which includes an author, two publishers, a literary agent, a bookseller, a librarian, and a chairperson appointed by the Booker Prize Foundation.

However, the Council would determine ( with the exception of 13 Egyptian bishops ) that this was an issue of wording and not of doctrine ; a committee of bishops appointed to study the orthodoxy of the Tome using Cyril's letters ( which included the twelve anathemas ) as their criteria unanimously determined it to be orthodox, and the Council, with few exceptions, supported this.

In 1905, he was appointed as counsel to the New York state legislative " Stevens Gas Commission ", a committee investigating utility rates.

On September 24, 1834 a committee was appointed by the general assembly of the church to organize a new volume containing the most significant Latter Day Saint revelations.

Any elected or appointed board, committee, town officer or ten voters, may place an article on the warrant.

In 1791 David was appointed to head the organizing committee for the ceremony, a parade through the streets of Paris to the Panthéon.

Although Walter Winterbottom was appointed as England's first ever full-time manager in 1946, the team was still picked by a committee until Alf Ramsey took over in 1963.

After the Supreme Court annulled that law, President Vieira dissolved the Assembly, thus allowing the standing committee to continue working, and appointed a new government composed of loyalists.

The price quoted by Eiffel was FF. 965, 000, far below the nearest competitor and so he was given the job, although since his company was less experienced than his rivals the Portuguese authorities appointed a committee to report on Eiffel et Cie's suitability.

In 1933 a plan of development providing for a population of 250, 000 was worked out by a special commission appointed by a government committee, in collaboration with the municipal authorities.

( Needham F, Outterson T. Report of the committee appointed to investigate the nature of the phenomena of hypnotism.

A new linguistic committee was formed in 2010 .< ref > In April 2010, Tiberio Madonna was appointed as secretary of linguistic issues, succeeding Neves.

He was elected to the Academy of Sciences and the SED central committee, and was later appointed deputy director of the Institute for Nuclear Research in Rossendorf, near Dresden, where he served until he retired in 1979.

Parliament appointed a committee, led by William Ewart, on Public Libraries to consider the necessity of establishing libraries through the nation: In 1849 their report noted the poor condition of library service, it recommended the establishment of free public libraries all over the country, and it led to the Public Libraries Act in 1850, which allowed all cities with populations exceeding 10, 000 to levy taxes for the support of public libraries.

If the two houses choose different individuals, then a joint committee of both houses is appointed to agree on a common candidate.

In 1927 the Court appointed a committee to look at this issue, and it reported that " where there are in fact contending parties, the difference between contentious cases and advisory cases is only nominal ... so the view that advisory opinions are not binding is more theoretical than real ".

The committee was appointed in 1932 by the British Association for the Advancement of Science to investigate the possibility of quantitatively estimating sensory events.

A governmental committee was appointed in 1844 to solve the issues, which led to the removal of Schwartz in 1845.

This question he referred to the special committee of experts appointed to study the general liturgical reform.

New members were appointed the day after Robespierre's execution, and term limits were imposed ( a quarter of the committee retired every three months ); its powers were reduced piece by piece.

A committee was formed to advise Kennedy's widow Jacqueline, who would make the final decision.

The city council recently adopted an airport advisory committee to advise on ways of improving the airport, an airport director was brought on board, similar businesses are looking into relocating at the airport, the airport has begun to receive FDOT grant funding and many improvements are on schedule for this next year.

He consulted the Bank of England on the project and it set up a special committee to advise on how best the robbery could take place.

While such agreements are no longer used, the committee retains its role in examining departmental expenditure, and will advise Cabinet on the allocation each department is to receive.

" A promotion and raise had been among the options suggested by a World Bank ethics committee that was set up to advise on the situation.

Advising the committee were two advisory councils — one composed of priests and temple administrators to aid the committee with the operations of the Tirumala temple and another composed of farmers for advise on Tirumala's land and estate transactions.

Mason Hung of the HKTA and an IDBF Senior Vice President ( 2008 ) traveled to Vancouver in 1985 to advise the CCC race committee on organizing the inaugural competition, as he had been instrumental in developing the HK International DB Races ( IDBR ) throughout the 1980s.

A committee of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain was appointed at the request of the General Medical Council to advise on pharmaceutical matters.

Ernst & Young was hired, to advise the Central Bank of Ireland on the € 440 billion bank guarantee scheme in January 2009, despite the fact that Ernst & Young was being investigated arising from its audits of Anglo Irish Bank and had also refused to appear before a parliamentary committee following the collapse of the same bank after receiving " legal advice ".

The group of people is described as " a Council to aid and advise in the Government of Canada, to be styled the Queen's Privy Council for Canada ," though, by convention, the task of advising the sovereign and governor general on how to exercise the Royal Prerogative is carried out by the Cabinet a committee of the Privy Council made up of other ministers of the Crown who are drawn from and responsible to the elected and appointed chambers of parliament.

Westward TV had an Agricultural Advisory committee chaired by R. G. Pomeroy to advise the company on its agricultural output.

Wood considered reconstituting the whole of the GPO, changing it from a government department to what would later be called a quango, and he set up an independent committee to advise him on this.

In June 1990, Vice President Quayle and Admiral Richard Truly, then the NASA administrator, asked Stafford to chair a committee to independently advise NASA how to carry out President George H. W.

In 1866 he was a member of a committee to advise Henry Scott on design aspects of the Royal Albert Hall, along with architects William Tite and Matthew Digby Wyatt, and the engineers John Hawkshaw and John Fowler.

In 1934, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden agreed to an alliance with the Association and a Grand Council of prestigious men & women was formed to act as a governing body to advise the executive committee.

On the same day, a special committee called the " Committee on Fundamental Rights of Citizens and Minorities of Pakistan " was appointed to look into and advise the Assembly on matters relating to fundamental rights of the citizens, particularly the minorities, with the aim to legislate on these issues appropriately.

The committee were critical of the Dadfords, but when they called in William Jessop to advise them, he suggested that such issues were merely teething problems, and were quite normal on such a project.

In 1970, Attorney General Elliot Richardson created an advisory committee of 15 U. S. Attorneys to advise the Attorney General.

Chaim Lipshitz was its Rosh ( head or leader ), with assistance from Norman Lourie and advise and Hebrew terminology being developed through a committee run by Wellesley Aron.

In 1775 he was appointed, by the legislature of his native State, on the committee of safety, appointed to advise with the Governor of the State during the recess of the legislature.

The Defense Science Board ( or DSB ) is a committee of civilian experts appointed to advise the U. S. Department of Defense on scientific and technical matters.

The academy had sound planning from the start with an expert committee consisting of some of the leading musicians and scholars to advise the academy on all technical matters.

In July 2010 Stevenson, Mayor Gregor Robertson and Councilor Heather Deal were caught on an open microphone mocking and laughing at public speakers at a council session who had called for greater transparency in the selection of a 12-person committee that will advise council on rezoning.