How to Use standing committee in a Sentence

standing committee

noun

• 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
• 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
• Who is admitted to the politburo and its standing committee will show which group is in the ascendant.
  — Katie Hunt, CNN, 17 Oct. 2017
• 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 other substantive aspect, of course, is the reshuffling of the top leadership in the Politburo and its standing committee.
  — CBS News, 26 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
• 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
• The recommendations can now be crafted into bills by the standing committees in the House.
  — Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 16 Jan. 2018
• 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 Politburo and its standing committee aren’t generally viewed as a check on his power.
  — Calvin Woodward, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2020
• Once Democrats take control of the House next year, women are in line to chair four of the House’s 20 standing committees, including two that are among the House’s most influential panels.
  — Julie Bykowicz, WSJ, 13 Nov. 2018
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Shah would like to see a standing committee set up to address the ethics of challenge trials, especially during outbreaks, and spell out when they are justified.
  — Jon Cohen, Science | AAAS, 31 Mar. 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
• The other six standing committee members only appear in a small group photo below.
  — Simon Denyer, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2017
• Camera-ready: For the first time, every Ohio legislative standing committee meeting will be publicly broadcast and streamed to the public starting Thursday.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 16 Jan. 2020
• In our opinion, for a start the Mental Health Trust Authority bylaws should be amended to require the establishment of a standing committee that would catalog the rights of the disabled and the number and type of complaints.
  — Alaska Dispatch News, 15 Oct. 2017
• On the standing committee unveiled Sunday, those seven members are his closest allies.
  — Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2022
• 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
• These 25 people will then determine who makes up the Politburo's standing committee, a group of seven elite Party members headed by Xi, in the general secretary role.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 15 Oct. 2022
• 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
• Half of the House’s 20 permanent standing committees are currently chaired by pro-Smith Republicans.
  — Jeremy Pelzer, cleveland, 6 Nov. 2019
• Wardlaw chairs the court’s standing committee on federal public defenders.
  — oregonlive, 7 July 2023

Last Updated: 31 Oct 2024