How to Use standing committee in a Sentence

standing committee

noun
  • Our standing committees should, and do, have a role to play in the rule-making process.
    — Jessie Opoien, jsonline.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • The standing committee of the congress, which announced the opening date, did not say how long the session would last.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 29 Apr. 2020
  • Who is admitted to the politburo and its standing committee will show which group is in the ascendant.
    — Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Oct. 2017
  • The three labour codes that were passed, for instance, should have ideally been sent to a standing committee for consultation.
    — Manavi Kapur, Quartz India, 28 Sep. 2020
  • The other six standing committee members only appear in a small group photo below.
    — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
  • The Politburo and its standing committee aren’t generally viewed as a check on his power.
    — Calvin Woodward, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2020
  • The recommendations can now be crafted into bills by the standing committees in the House.
    — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • By stacking the standing committee, Xi is undoing an age norm held since the 1990s.
    — Lily Kuo and Christian Shepherd, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Oct. 2022
  • By stacking the standing committee, Xi is undoing an age norm that mostly had held since the 1990s.
    — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2022
  • The commission’s standing committee on plants, animals, food and feed has scheduled a vote among member states for Wednesday.
    — Agnieszka De Sousa, Bloomberg.com, 24 Oct. 2017
  • On the standing committee unveiled Sunday, those seven members are his closest allies.
    — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2022
  • Joining him then on the standing committee was Zhang Gaoli, who ran the large metropolis of Tianjin.
    — Keith Bradsher, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The other substantive aspect, of course, is the reshuffling of the top leadership in the Politburo and its standing committee.
    — CBS News, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The change appears to stem from amendments approved by the judiciary’s standing committee on rules of practice and procedure in June.
    — Washington Post, 2 Mar. 2018
  • Experts will be watching whether there will be a young face – and potential successor – in the standing committee, which could signal whether or not Xi is aiming for a fourth term.
    — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Likewise, the standing committee on academics authorized its staff to study a proposal to sanction a drone racing activity.
    — Dallas News, 17 Oct. 2022
  • But House Foreign Affairs is a standing committee, and removing a member from it requires a vote of the full House.
    — Marianna Sotomayor, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Feb. 2023
  • John Scott, who finished his six year run as chair of the standing committee in January, said the proposal to mask directors did not come up during his tenure.
    — Joshua Berlinger, CNN, 19 Apr. 2021
  • For Wang to stay on in the standing committee, though, his age is a big obstacle thanks to the party's unwritten mandatory retirement age of 68.
    — Steven Jiang, CNN, 19 Oct. 2017
  • The audit committee is a standing committee of a company’s board of directors and is composed of board members who are independent of management.
    — Joseph Brazel, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • While placed on leave a Speaker Pro Tem will be rotated in 15-day increments among the chairpersons from each standing committee.
    — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The congress’ standing committee that handles most actual legislation will then consider the details of the measure, the newspaper said.
    — Washington Post, 21 May 2020
  • The congress' standing committee that handles most actual legislation will then consider the details of the measure, the newspaper said.
    — Ken Moritsugu, Anchorage Daily News, 21 May 2020
  • Lisonbee’s move from chair of the House Judiciary Committee to vice chair means there are no women leading any standing committee in the House.
    — Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 27 Nov. 2021
  • Republicans on the committee spent much of their time questioning the validity of the panel when the House already has eight standing committees to conduct oversight.
    — Ledyard King, USA TODAY, 13 May 2020
  • Yue Zhongming, a member of the standing committee, told a news conference the law was not intended to restrict academic freedom, but that this should not be used to harm the honor of the nation's heroes.
    — Simon Denyer, chicagotribune.com, 27 Apr. 2018
  • City Council was also expected to vote on a resolution establishing gun-free zones in certain parts of the city but referred the issue to the public health and safety standing committee.
    — Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2023
  • Superintendent Joe Gothard will lead the standing committee, along with a school board member and the district’s assistant director for equity.
    — Josh Verges, Twin Cities, 20 Aug. 2019
  • Half of the House’s 20 permanent standing committees are currently chaired by pro-Smith Republicans.
    — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2019
  • The action on Monday by a standing committee of the 13th National People’s Congress went further.
    — James Gorman, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2020

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