Consequently, local people are used to forming themselves into committees to influence local issues.
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But delegates to the Cairo meetings, who were split into committees to tackle specific issues, reported cordiality and progress.
It is rich in principles, even as it shunts several of the thorniest issues, such as the proposed integration of rival security forces, into committees.
Once you break out into these committees, the opportunities to weigh in on the issues that matter most are plentiful.
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's city administrator, detailed a communitywide campaign that kicked off in September 1998 and was spun out into several committees.
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An independent review into the three committees responsible for scrutinising Guernsey's government has recommended they be scrapped.
It would be better to merge the two committees into one, say some economists, including Sushil Wadhwani, a hedge-fund manager who sat on the MPC until 2002.
Late last year they cheered local co-ordination committees coalescing into more sophisticated councils overseeing cities and provinces.
Mr Heath told MPs the changes would bring the committee into line with other select committees.
Numerous neighbourhood committees have united into town councils.
Two parliamentary committees also are looking into media conduct.
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Two parliamentary committees are also looking into media conduct.
It has set up two committees - one looking into speeding up trials of cases involving sexual assaults on women, and the other to examine the lapses that might have led to the incident in Delhi.
The things that matter are the numbers that the various committees are going to get locked into.
House-Senate conference committees from have been working late into the night for the past three days to meet Bush's request that Congress pass tax relief by Memorial Day.
Congressional committees and state attorneys general started investigations into how the companies handled the clinical trial.
But those plans may run into flak as Republican lawmakers take control of House committees and subcommittees that oversee NASA, according to industry officials, including competitors, critical of Lockheed Martin's efforts.
In a round table with executive and legislative officials and civil society leaders, representing gender, ecology and education committees, the Director-General gained insight into policies on gender, ecology, education and culture.
The Interagency Policy Committees will develop strategic actions plans to put these policy objectives into practice.
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