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I'm on the short subject selection
committee
for a film festival and just screened this with the
committee
last night.
And, foreseeing Morsi’s victory, SCAF assumed all legislative powers; severely limited the president’s powers; seized the authority to appoint the
committee
tasked with drafting the new Constitution; took control of the country’s budget; and claimed sole power over domestic and foreign security.
Although Iraq’s interim constitution gave the Assembly exclusive control over the drafting process, the Assembly wisely reached out beyond its membership in creating a constitutional drafting
committee.
But, during his 16-year tenure, Yam put his own appointees on that committee, choosing them from the financial sector that he regulates.
And it is equally unlikely that, had she had her way, the eurozone would be the camel – a horse designed by
committee
– that it is today.
Testifying in a court of law or before a
committee
of the US Congress, witnesses “solemnly swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.”
For example, foreign aid could be placed under the stewardship of a
committee
of representatives from different social factions, including the civil-society groups at the center of the uprising and the Muslim Brotherhood, with the clear understanding that if the
committee
fails to agree, the aid will not be disbursed.
Beyond bringing important but politically marginalized groups to the table, such a
committee
might also produce a demonstration effect, with successful power-sharing in a small setting possibly encouraging power-sharing writ large.
But, given that candidates are to be carefully vetted by an unelected
committee
of pro-Chinese appointees, citizens would have no meaningful choice at all.
The
committee
members increasingly seem to be prisoners of the past.
His right-wing allies in the House of Representatives (even more partisan than the Senate) have subjected the new FBI director, Christopher Wray, to hostile questioning in various
committee
hearings.
The
committee
found that animals suffer from being unable to move freely and from the total lack of anything to do all day.
This time, he has instructed a
committee
of historians to reexamine the official apology delivered in 1993 to World War II-era sex slaves held in Japanese military brothels.
It is clear from various recent statements that some of Abe’s closest advisers believe that the apology was not in order, so the
committee
might well conclude that Japan was never officially involved in prostitution, and that its “sincere remorse” should therefore be withdrawn.
Merkel’s idea of establishing a eurozone super
committee
that would partly substitute for the Eurogroup of eurozone finance ministers – which Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte already proposed, to no avail – would complicate things even further.
Yes, such a
committee
would bring Merkel the added political benefit of constraining the influence of Social Democrat Olaf Scholz, her Vice-Chancellor and finance minister.
Because Mr. Armitage and many other American members of the joint
committee
became high officials in the Bush administration, Japan's politicians regarded a response to this report as vital.
Finally, the report criticizes IMF management for failing to ensure adequate involvement by the Executive Board, its oversight
committee
of 24 national representatives.
It would be better to allow an independent management team to make decisions free of political interference, in the manner of a central bank policy
committee.
It is an old story in China: calls for reform by liberalizers end up antagonizing conservative Party members--in this case, the political faction of Jiang Zemin, who, although not on the Politburo standing committee, still heads the powerful central Military Commission and wields substantial influence.
There seems little doubt that the new process of
committee
hearings, at which individual Commissioners can be grilled, could have the effect of prising apart the members of the Commission.
Its members, with statutory independence and long terms in office, could function like the monetary policy
committee
of a central bank.
Worse than that, at least until recently, a
committee
evaluating an economist would likely think that writing a popular economics book that does not repeat the received wisdom of the discipline might even be professionally unethical.
My colleague Selma Mahfouz chaired a
committee
that prepared a blueprint for such a system.
But almost all of the Republicans on the
committee
were prepared to push his nomination through quickly: though he was an unpopular choice, he had the support of the Republican base, including much of the Christian right.
Whereas Hamas has demanded establishment of a Palestinian administration to supervise the areas vacated by Israel, Abbas has rejected this, agreeing at most to a “monitoring committee” in which representatives of Hamas will participate.
The committee, which I head, deliberated over three weeks of hearings, summoning senior representatives from the foreign and home ministries, as well as the government of the most affected state, West Bengal.
The Spaak
committee
devised a system that balanced the voting power of states of varying size.
And a United Nations advisory
committee
chaired by the Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz has argued for a new global reserve currency, possibly one based on the SDR.
In the United States, a powerful bi-partisan Senate
committee
directly monitors the intelligence services.
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