In secret he also acted as a member of the prisoners' Central Committee, which plotted sabotage, planned a few escapes, and maintained a hidden control over the wretched French slave-laborers.

Seward's initial reaction to the Trent affair, however, was too bellicose, so Lincoln also turned to Senator Charles Sumner, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and an expert in British diplomacy.

As Chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures, he also attempted but failed to reduce by one-fifth all federal salaries over $ 1, 000.

Clinton also experienced a number of judicial appointment controversies, as 69 nominees to federal judgeships were not processed by the Republican-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee.

Constituent service does also take place in the form of the Petition Committee.

CEN, European Committee for Standardisation, also has a specific Technical Committee, TC333, that defines European standards for cycles.

Instead, from 1 January 1923, almost all the remaining companies were grouped into the " big four ", the Great Western Railway, the London and North Eastern Railway, the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and the Southern Railway companies ( there were also a number of other joint railways such as the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway and the Cheshire Lines Committee as well as special joint railways such as the Forth Bridge Railway, Ryde Pier Railway and at one time the East London Railway ).

White emigres who had returned due to pledges of amnesty were also sent directly to the Gulag, as were Jews from the Anti-Fascist Committee and other organizations.

The other organisations that maintain the SI system, also known by their French initialisms are the General Conference on Weights and Measures () ( CGPM ) and the International Committee for Weights and Measures () ( CIPM ).

The Black Hand was organized at the grassroots level in 3-to 5-member cells, supervised by district committees and by a Central committee in Belgrade whose ten-member Executive Committee was led, more or less, by Colonel Dragutin Dimitrijević ( also known as Apis ).

The United States Navy also maintained a naval training school for aeronautical engineering, resident inspectors of ordnance and naval material, and a liaison officer to the National Defense Research Committee on campus.

Non-Communist organizations also have Central Committees, such as the Mennonite Church and Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors ( to war ).

Besides the Politburo the Central Committee also elected the Secretariat and the General Secretary, the de facto leader of the Soviet Union.

In 1919 – 1952 the Orgburo was also elected in the same manner as the Politburo and the Secretariat by the plenums of the Central Committee.

The view that the Politburo appointed Central Committee members is also controversial, considering the fact that each new Central Committee were, in most cases, filled with supporters of the General Secretary.

He also mentions that the NCTE Committee on Public Doublespeak and their works with regards to educating the public on doublespeak is responsible for " the rather awesome task of combating the advertisers, the politicians, and the major manipulators of public language in our society.

The Committee also presented the George Orwell Award for Honesty and Clarity in Public Language for 1975-76 to Professor Hugh Rank who created the pattern.

During this period Mountbatten also served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee for a year.

The Attorney General is also a member of the Advisory Committee on the Prerogative of Mercy and acts as presiding officer during Speaker elections in the Legislative Assembly, and may attend all meetings of the Assembly.

There is also a Public Accounts Committee consisting of a chairman and two other members appointed by the Governor ( in consultation with the elected MLAs ) and two elected members of the Legislative Assembly.

In addition to recognition by the International Olympic Committee and Special Olympics, the IFF is also a member of the General Association of International Sports Federations ( GAISF ), and co-operates with the International University Sports Federation ( FISU ).

Fine Gael's MEPs sit with the EPP Group in the European Parliament, and FG parliamentarians also sit with the EPP Groups in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and Committee of the Regions.

The regulations also allowed titles to be awarded by a FIDE Congress on recommendation by the Qualification Committee.

Biographer Joseph McBride argues that Capra's disillusionment was more related to the negative effect that the House Un-American Activities Committee ( HUAC ) had on the film industry in general.

Historian Albert Mathiez argues that the authority of the Committee of Public Safety was based on the necessities of war, as those in power realized that deviating from the will of the people was a temporary emergency response measure in order to secure the ideals of the Republic.

The Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America argues the practice at the UN is that the binding version of any resolution is the one voted upon.

The Socialist Party argues that its method of elections to the National Committee does not promote individuals, but instead is conceived as the selection of a rounded-out team, including both experienced as well as young or less experienced but promising members, together with members from the trade unions and youth and other aspects of the Socialist Party's work.

The June 30th Committee, an independent Toronto anti-war group, argues that TCSW was decisively influenced by the I. S.

" In the 1950s, Scalapino argues, " The primary Communist-front organization was the Japan Peace Committee.

first witness, the Minister of Justice, argues that the Standing Committee on Justice and the Solicitor General do not need to conduct extensive hearings but should send the bill back to the

This approach, he argues, is consistent with former Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean's " 50 State Strategy ".

However, Makim argues that the Committee was " largely unaffected by formal or informal U. S. preferences " given the ambivalence of some riparians about U. S. technical support, in particular Cambodia ’ s rejection of some specific types of assistance.

In Lessons of October, Leon Trotsky, who was one of the leaders of the Russian October Revolution and considered second only to Lenin, argues that the Petrograd Soviet essentially entered a state of armed insurrection before October 25: " From the moment when we, as the Petrograd Soviet, invalidated Kerensky's order transferring two-thirds of the garrison to the front, we had actually entered a state of armed insurrection ... the outcome of the insurrection of October 25 was at least three-quarters settled, if not more, the moment that we opposed the transfer of the Petrograd garrison ; created the Military Revolutionary Committee ( October 16 )...".

In February 2011, a report of the House of Commons Welsh Affairs Committee argues that the abolition of the Welsh Development Agency has reduced Wales's visibility in the global marketplace.

The initial estimate was to have this revision completed by 1997 and an ISO CD ( Committee Draft ) was available by 1997.

In June 2006, the VHDL Technical Committee of Accellera ( delegated by IEEE to work on the next update of the standard ) approved so called Draft 3. 0 of VHDL-2006.

2010 Green Party convention in Freiburg, Dieter Salomon, Green Party Mayor and Carey Campbell, USA, National Chairman Committee to Draft Michael Bloomberg, & Independent Green Party

The original Constitutional Drafting Committee of the newly-founded Republic of China ， photographed on the steps of the Temple of Heaven in Beijing, where the Draft was completed in 1913.

* Virginia Declaration of Rights ( Committee Draft, 27 May 1776 )

* Former Consultation Committee Member of the Human Rights Consultation Committee of Victoria which formulated the Draft Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities, a precursor to the Victorian Charter of Rights.

In early 2007, the Sachs for President Draft Committee was formed to encourage Sachs to run for President of the United States in the 2008 election.

Mahmoud Ahmed Sherifo, the Vice President of Eritrea and Minister of Local Government, was appointed Chair of the Committee to Draft Electoral Law.

The Eritrean National Assembly neither protested when Mr Mahmoud Sherifo, who was Chair of the Committee to Draft Electoral Laws was dismissed by the President on 7 February nor did it condemn the illegal arrest of their Parliamentary colleagues on 18 September 2001.

Others like the Railway Convention Committee, the Committees on the Draft Five Year Plans and the Hindi Equivalents Committee were appointed for specific purposes.

In 2007, he chaired the Joint Parliamentary Committee on the Draft Climate Change Bill.

* Draft Registration, Draft Resistance, the Military Draft, and the Medical Draft: resources on military conscription and " Selective Service " in the USA from the National Resistance Committee

Lord Richard currently serves as Chairman of the parliamentary Joint Committee on the Draft House of Lords Reform Bill.

He was the leader of the Nigerian delegations to the conference held to consider the Draft Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States in 1963 and to the Special Committee on the Principles of International Law concerning Friendly Relations and Co-operation among States in 1964.

* Draft of the Statutes of the Odessa Committee at zionistarchives. org. il

Over the years he was active in a number of groups and causes including the Communist Party, the Progressive Labor Party, Draft Resistance-Seattle, Students for a Democratic Society ( SDS ), American Friends Service Committee, Anti-Fascist Front, Seattle Committee to End the War in Vietnam, and trade unions.

A draft Bill was scrutinised in detail by the Joint Committee on the Draft Civil Contingencies Bill, which was very influential in shaping the legislation but several proposals of which ( especially for a new agency ) were rejected.

A draft Bill was scrutinised in detail by the Joint Committee on the Draft Civil Contingencies Bill.