The House was his habitat and there he flourished, first as a young representative, then as a forceful committee chairman, and finally in the post for which he seemed intended from birth, Speaker of the House, and second most powerful man in Washington.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

A steering committee of students was organized on the first day whose duty it was to be alert and constantly evaluate and re-evaluate the direction and pace the class was taking.

The first committee meeting will be held on May 19.

The X3 committee also addressed how ASCII should be transmitted ( least significant bit first ), and how it should be recorded on perforated tape.

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

Stroustrup began developing C ++ in 1979 ( then called " C with Classes "), and, in his own words, " invented C ++, wrote its early definitions, and produced its first implementation ... chose and formulated the design criteria for C ++, designed all its major facilities, and was responsible for the processing of extension proposals in the C ++ standards committee.

Visits that took place before the 1910 South Africa tour ( the first selected by a committee from the four Home Unions ) had enjoyed a growing degree of support from the authorities, although only one of these included representatives of all four nations.

The rules committee considered widening the playing field to " open up " the game, but Harvard Stadium ( the first large permanent football stadium ) had recently been built at great expense ; it would be rendered useless by a wider field.

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

One of the first scandals to hit the new Scottish Parliament occurred when allegations that the lobbying arm of public relations company Beattie Media had privileged access to ministers were published, prompting Dewar to ask the standards committee to investigate the reports.

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.

At age 24, Fermi took a professorship at the University of Rome ( one of the first three in theoretical physics in Italy ) which he won in a competition whose selection committee was chaired by Professor Orso Mario Corbino, director of the Institute of Physics.

After the detonation of the first Soviet fission bomb in August 1949, he, along with Isidor Rabi, wrote a strongly worded report for the committee which opposed the development of a hydrogen bomb on moral and technical grounds.

He was responsible for establishing Marblehead's committee of correspondence, one of the first to be set up after that of Boston.

The rule adopted by a committee for American football in 1880 first provided for the uncontested right of one side to play the ball by foot ( in any direction ) for a scrimmage.

In June 1776, Congress ' first attempt at running the war effort was established with the committee known as " Board of War and Ordnance ", succeeded by the Board of War in July 1777, a committee which eventually included members of the military.

In presenting the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1934, Professor I. Holmgren of the Nobel committee observed that " Of the three prize winners, it was Whipple who first occupied himself with the investigations for which the prize is now awarded.

" The bill was referred to committee on first reading in the Senate and has been there ever since.

Rodwell and the committee he assembled to organize this event spent the next nine months assembling the first end-of-June commemoration of the Stonewall Riots.

Rodwell and his committee accommodated them by organizing the first Gay Pride Week.

On July 6, 1776, the first committee for the production of the Great Seal of the United States convened.

Friedrich August Kekulé von StradonitzThe need for an international standard for chemistry was first addressed in 1860 by a committee headed by German scientist Friedrich August Kekulé von Stradonitz.

The committee met repeatedly, and chairman John Dickinson presented their results to the Congress on July 12, 1776.

According to the historian David O. Stewart, Cornelius Wendell led an acquittal committee, which met in the Astor House in New York ; it collected a bribery fund of up to $ 150, 000 to influence Senators into voting for Johnson's acquittal.

Managements promoting demutualization also thereby met managerial objectives because the end of mutuality brought joint stock company ( Plc ) style remuneration committee pay standards and share options.

Douglas ’ committee met later that night.

In June 2004, the General Assembly met in Richmond, Virginia and adopted by a vote of 431-62 a resolution that called on the church's committee on Mission Responsibility through Investment ( MRTI ) " to initiate a process of phased, selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel.

The committee voted tentatively to award the game site to Arizona, but committee chair Norman Braman met with Art Mobley after the vote and vowed that " if anything was done to dishonor the memory of Dr. King ," the committee would vote to change the site of the Super Bowl.

The Subcommittee on International Organizations of the Committee on International Relations ( also known as the Fraser Committee ) was a committee of the United States House of Representatives which met in 1976 and 1977 and conducted an investigation into South Korea – United States relations.

He then travelled to Berlin where at the SDKPiL conference Dzerzhinsky was elected a secretary of its party committee abroad ( KZ ) and met with several prominent leaders of the Polish Social Democratic movement Rosa Luxemburg and Leo Jogiches.

In a subsequent press release, Dembski asserted that the committee had given an " unqualified affirmation of my own work on intelligent design ", that its report " marks the triumph of intelligent design as a legitimate form of academic inquiry " and that " dogmatic opponents of design who demanded that the Center be shut down have met their Waterloo.

The work done by the legal committee at the Ninth session was presented to the International Conference on Air Law which was convened by the council of ICAO and met at Hague from 6 to 28 September 1955.

After a lengthy decision-making process in which FIFA's executive committee met eight times, Italy was chosen as the host nation at a meeting in Stockholm on 9 October 1932.

Somervell met Groves outside the hearing room where Groves had been testifying before a United States Congress committee on military housing and informed him that " The Secretary of War has selected you for a very important assignment, and the President has approved the selection ...

A citizens ' committee met and decided to ask Governor Moore to keep the Rangers from firing on Federal boats.

Less than a month later, on July 4, 1890, a committee appointed by Perkasie Borough Council met to form the Hope Fire Company.

Beginning on August 21, the commissioners met with a committee of westerners that included Brackenridge and Gallatin.

With the support of the meeting, the committee met for the first time on 23 October and immediately entered into negotiation with Haydn Jones ' executors.

These variations in shade eventually led to calls to standardise the colour of Scotland's national flag, and in 2003 a committee of the Scottish Parliament met to examine a petition that the Scottish Executive adopt the Pantone 300 colour as a standard.

Even before this committee met a royal proclamation had been signed ( 30 January 1854 ) " abandoning and renouncing all dominion " in the Sovereignty.

Each committee met in a different location in the U. S. The three science committees met for three days in the Chicago area.

The lantmarskalk, or speaker of the House of Nobles, presided when the estates met in congress and also, by virtue of his office, in the secret committee.