On 12 June 1775, the Rhode Island General Assembly, meeting at East Greenwich, passed a resolution, which created the first formal, governmentally authorized navy in the Western Hemisphere: “ It is voted and resolved, that the committee of safety be, and they are hereby, directed to charter two suitable vessels, for the use of the colony, and fit out the same in the best manner, to protect the trade of this colony ... “ That the largest of the said vessels be manned with eighty men, exclusive of officers ; and be equipped with ten guns, four-pounders ; fourteen swivel guns, a sufficient number of small arms, and all necessary warlike stores.

His idea was well received by local business leaders and a steering committee was founded in 1994 and grew to eighty members.

In March, 1931, 22 out of 28 members of a committee of the Federal Council of Churches ratified artificial methods of birth control.

With the other members of the patents committee -- Wilfred C. Leland, Howard E. Coffin, Windsor T. White, and W. H. Vandervoort -- Hanch drafted a cross-licensing agreement whose essential feature of royalty-free licensing was his own contribution.

But questions with which committee members taunted bankers appearing as witnesses left little doubt that they will recommend passage of it.

He promised nearly 200 Democratic county committee members at the meeting in the Puddingstone Inn: `` When I come back here after the November election you'll think, ' You're my man -- you're the kind of governor we're glad we elected ' ''.

The outgoing members, whose four-year terms will expire a week after the April 18 primary election, received carved wooden elephants, complete with ivory tusks, to remember the state committee by.

Two members of the Democratic-endorsed majority on the school board said they probably would vote to appeal a ruling by the state Board of Education, which said yesterday that the school committee acted improperly in its appointment of the coordinator, Francis P. Nolan 3rd, the Democratic-endorsed committee chairman, could not be reached for comment.

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.

Bob Jones, Sr. argued that if members of Graham ’ s campaign executive committee had rejected major tenets of orthodox Christianity, such as the virgin birth and the deity of Christ, then Graham had violated 2 John 9-11, which prohibits receiving in fellowship those who do “ not abide in the teaching of Christ .” In the 1960s, Graham further irritated fundamentalists by gaining the endorsement of Cardinal Richard Cushing for his Boston campaign and accepting honorary degrees from two Roman Catholic colleges.

One firm, Scammell and Nephew Ltd, took a civil action against Attlee and the other Labour members of the committee ( although not against the Conservative members who had also supported this ).

This became a standard feature of computer languages, and the notation for grammars used in concrete descriptions of computer languages came to be known as Backus-Naur Form, after two members of the Algol language design committee.

The other members of its executive committee were Ritchie Calder, journalist James Cameron, Howard Davies, Michael Foot, Arthur Goss, Kingsley Martin, J.

About three-quarters of CND supporters were Labour voters and many of the early executive committee were Labour Party members.

" The IBM COMTRAN language invented by Bob Bemer was also drawn upon, but the FACT language specification from Honeywell was not distributed to committee members until late in the process and had relatively little impact.

The committee was made up of members representing six computer manufacturers and three government agencies.

In the U. S. Sea Scouting program ( which is part of the Boy Scouts of America ), all National, Regional, Area, and Council committee chairs are titled as commodore, while senior committee members are addressed as vice commodore.

This unpaid committee is responsible for the day-to-day running of the ecclesia and is answerable to the rest of the ecclesia's members.

, the board is made up of members of the Clay family, whereas the advisory committee is composed of leading authorities in mathematics, namely Sir Andrew Wiles, Yum-Tong Siu, Richard Melrose, Gregory Margulis, James Carlson, and Simon Donaldson.

The church membership at the time had not yet seen the Doctrine and Covenants manuscript as it had been compiled and revised solely by the committee ; however, various church members who were familiar with the work " bore record " of the book's truth.

Charles Weingartner, one of the founding members of the NCTE committee on Public Doublespeak mentioned: “ people do not know enough about the subject ( the reality ) to recognize that the language being used conceals, distorts, misleads ”.

The revision took on a far wider mandate under the influence and control of Spitzer and his chosen committee members.

The steering committee created 13 work groups of 5 – 16 members.

Anticipating delivery of medicines and yeast by plane, Granite City citizens formed an airfield committee and with the aid of quarrymen and the 172nd Infantry, Vermont National Guard, laid out runways on Wilson flat, high on Millstone Hill.

In 1983, the American National Standards Institute formed a committee, X3J11, to establish a standard specification of C. After a long and arduous process, the standard was completed in 1989 and ratified as ANSI X3. 159-1989 " Programming Language C ." This version of the language is often referred to as " ANSI C ", or sometimes " C89 " ( to distinguish it from C99 ).

In 1990, the Popular Front held its first National Congress, which formed a committee to draft a national constitution.

A committee of public heath was created on 8 December ; on 9 December the inhabitants of Jausiers and its surroundings formed a colony under the direction of general councillor Brès, and Mayor Signoret of Saint-Paul-sur-Ubaye.

Also, an advisory committee was formed in 1990 by then-Governor of Colorado Roy Romer to recruit an ownership group.

On February 25, 1918, as the counterrevolutionary organization Union of Front-liners was making advances, the executive committee of the Saratov Soviet formed a counter-revolutionary section.

The committee was formed to recommend a short range approach to a common business language.

The intermediate-range committee was formed but never became operational.

After Alston's death in 1977 a committee was formed, unable to raise funds for conservation on the original murals.

William Lutz stated that " the doublespeak committee was formed to combat the use of public language by increasing people's awareness of what is good, clear, solid use of language and what is not.

Hugh Rank formed the Doublespeak committee and was the first chairman of this committee.

In the event of disagreement between the Bundestag and the Bundesrat, a conciliation committee is formed to find a compromise.

With the initial peace treaty articles ratified in April, a recently formed Congressional committee under Hamilton, was considering needs and plans for a peacetime army.

On 15 May 1947, the General Assembly of the newly formed United Nations resolved ( Resolution 106 ) that a committee, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ( UNSCOP ), be created " to prepare for consideration at the next regular session of the Assembly a report on the question of Palestine ".

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

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

In 2006, the Dutch government formed a committee to investigate the TBS-system.

When he formed his exploratory committee, he signed Ed Rollins, Reagan's 1984 re-election political director, as an advisor.

In 1924, along with George M. Bolling ( Ohio State University ) and Edgar Sturtevant ( Yale University ) he formed a committee to organize the creation of the Society, and drafted the call for the Society's foundation.

1938: Indian Research Fund Association was established which formed a committee that undertook the investigation into the incidence & cause of Maternal & infant morbidity & mortslity.

First Students at Macquarie UniversityThe idea of founding a third university in Sydney was flagged in the early 1960s when the New South Wales Government formed a committee of enquiry into higher education to deal with a perceived emergency in university enrollments in New South Wales.

In October 1963 a committee was formed composed originally of 3 IBMers from New York and 3 members of SHARE, the IBM

The Writer ’ s Union also formed a committee in April 1968, headed by the poet Jaroslav Seifert, to investigate the persecution of writers after the Communist takeover in February 1948 and rehabilitate the literary figures into the Union, bookstores and libraries, and the literary world .< ref > Golan, Galia.

A crisis committee was formed in Bonn, headed by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, which, instead of acceding, resolved to employ delaying tactics to give the police time to discover Schleyer's location.