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.

In an important assertion of national leadership in this field, he has issued an executive order establishing the President's committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Crime, to be supported and assisted by a Citizens Advisory Council of recognized authorities on juvenile problems.

In an interesting turn of events, the United States government recognized cantors as the first Jewish clergy, even before rabbis were recognized-as a congregation could be organized and led by a committee of Jewish " laymen ," who would not have the expertise in liturgy a hazzan would have, newly forming congregations in the late 19th and early 20th centuries sometimes hired a hazzan for a synagogue ( and made sure that a kosher butcher was established in the neighborhood ) for some time before setting about hiring a rabbi, seeing the hazzan ( and the butcher ) as a more immediate need.

He specialized on mining issues, became a recognized authority on the topic, and chaired the goldfields committee in 1887 and 1888.

However, while Vare's election victory was recognized by the Senate, he was never officially seated, as allegations of impropriety were eventually brought before a special Senate committee.

Stockton's academic programs and faculty have been recognized by such nationally recognized organizations as the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and Learning, the National Science Foundation, the American Association of State Colleges and Universities, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Pulitzer Prize committee, the United States Air Force Academy, and The New York Times.

According to a committee resolution, the dissertation can be approved or rejected by an academic committee consisting of the thesis director, the thesis coordinator, and at least one evaluator from another recognized university in which the student is pursuing his or her academic program.

Second, since the thesis supervisor ( and the other members of the advisory committee ) will normally have reviewed the thesis extensively before recommending the student proceed to the defense, such an outcome would be regarded as a major failure not only on the part of the candidate but also by the candidate's supervisor ( who should have recognized the substandard quality of the dissertation long before the defense was allowed to take place ).

The necessity for this element in the construction of a pharmacopoeia is now fully recognized in other countries, in most of which pharmaceutical chemists are represented on the committee for the preparation of the legally recognized manuals.

This action of the dissident general committee was not recognized by the sitting National Executive Committee, the meeting held to be illegally constitute, and the NEC and the official press continued to conduct their regular operations.

Genetic research published in 2009 strongly suggested that the Snowy Plover is a separate species from the Kentish Plover, and by July, 2011, the IOC, and the AOU North American committee have recognized them as separate species.

1 ) Assist in the enforcement of state laws and ordinances of cities and counties relating to fire prevention and fire protection ; and enforce compliance with the fire code adopted by the state fire safety committee throughout the state except in any city having a population of one hundred thousand persons or more which has in effect a nationally recognized fire code, whether modified or unmodified, and which has enacted an ordinance to assume such jurisdiction from the state fire safety committee.

The Appropriations committee is widely recognized by political scientists as one of the " power committees ," since it holds the power of the purse.

Bob Dumaine is a recognized expert in duck stamps, founder of the National Duck Stamp Collectors Society ( www. NDSCS. org ), a past judge in the Federal Duck Stamp Contest and serves on the expertizing committee of Professional Stamp Experts.

Following the season, on November 17,, members of the NL officially recognized the Brotherhood and met with a Brotherhood committee that consisted of three players – Ward ‚ Hanlon and Brouthers.

Americans have still not recognized the nature of the war they are losing ( citing George Tenet's late-February 2004 testimony to a Senate committee ) ( 261-63 ).

The CDS remained as chairman of the committee and was also recognized as the professional head of the British Armed Forces.

Though he was not recognized by the prize committee for this piece ( as he had been for the Discourse on the Arts and Sciences ) he nevertheless published the text in 1755.

The Yield management systems developed at American Airlines were recognized by the Edelman Prize committee of INFORMS for contributing $ 1. 4 billion in a three year period at the airline.

This made it possible for poets to pick and choose the publications most amenable to their work and the vitality of these independent publishers was recognized by the larger community, including the National Endowment for the Arts, which created a committee to distribute support money for this burgeoning group of publishers called the Coordinating Council of Literary Magazines ( CCLM ).

Although,, the Green Party of the United States has for several years been a much larger and more visible national-level and state-based party organization and has been recognized since 2001 by the Federal Election Commission as a national committee of a political party, the smaller Greens / Green Party USA ( a name adopted in 1991 ) claims to be the successor to the original American Green organization founded in 1984, previously called the Green Committees of Correspondence ( CoCs ) 1984-1991.