Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [noun] [prep] representatives " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as Phil Sharp , chairman of the House of Representatives Energy Committee , gloomily acknowledges , it would also remove the pressure for an energy strategy . |
| 2 | Thus Lee Hamilton , chairman of the House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee , speaking on CNN . |
| 3 | Bills introduced in the US by the chairman of the House of Representatives Intellectual Property Subcommittee and his Senate counterpart proposing changes to the 1976 Copyright Act are being strongly opposed by the Librarian of Congress , James Billington , and by the Register of Copyrights , Ralph Oman , reports Publishers Weekly . |
| 4 | A United States congressman , Mervyn Dymally , chairman of the House of Representatives subcommittee on Africa , visited Liberia in early May and urged Amos Sawyer , interim President of Liberia [ see p. 38134 ] , and Taylor to attend new peace talks in Abidjan , Côte d'Ivoire , on May 23 . |
| 5 | The Democratic chairman of the House of Representatives budget committee , Leon E. Panetta , described the package as " gimmickry " and accused the administration of using " smoke and mirrors " in order to finance its tax cuts and spending initiatives . |
| 6 | Approval of the loan was aided by the decision of the House of Representatives on Dec. 19 to pass legislation raising 1992 federal taxes to bring in US$12,000 million in extra revenue . |
| 7 | The first session of the House of Representatives on April 15 was cut short after Suchinda was subjected to a barrage of opposition criticism . |
| 8 | King Bhumibol Adulyadej opened the new session of the House of Representatives on Sept. 21 . |
| 9 | The good news , on May 13th , was that the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives passed the taxation part of the president 's economic proposals . |
| 10 | US Secretary of State James Baker , addressing the foreign affairs committee of the House of Representatives on June 13 , said that the stance of the new government could be summed up as " there will be no dialogue unless the Palestinians accept our position in advance " . |
| 11 | In late July the parallel committee of the House of Representatives had also agreed upon a much-reduced defence bill upon which the House was due to vote after the summer recess . |
| 12 | In an address to the foreign affairs committee of the House of Representatives on Sept. 4 , Baker reiterated the aims which Bush had outlined in August [ see p. 37638 ] . |
| 13 | The foreign affairs committee of the House of Representatives heard evidence from Sick and Bani-Sadr . |
| 14 | On April 17 the ethics committee of the House of Representatives issued a " full disclosure " of the House banking scandal which had become popularly dubbed as the " Rubbergate " affair [ see p. 38807 ] . |
| 15 | The bill , which was likely to be considered by the full Senate after the summer recess , was similar to that which had been approved by the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives on June 30 . |
| 16 | Barr stated , however , that the July 9 request by the judiciary committee of the House of Representatives for an independent prosecutor to examine the Iraqgate affair [ see p. 38998 ] contained " vague and general allegations " which did not meet these conditions . |
| 17 | The proposal ran smack into the powerful beer lobby in Congress , including Richard Gephardt , majority leader of the House of Representatives , whose district in St Louis includes the giant Anheuser-Busch brewery . |
| 18 | Democratic party leaders were already piloting their own education bill through Congress , and Richard Gephardt , Democratic leader of the House of Representatives , gave Bush 's proposals a lukewarm response , describing them as " tinkering at the margins " . |
| 19 | The announcement was followed by the dissolution of the House of Representatives on Feb. 17 . |
| 20 | In that case the County Council will have to look after the sick there , possibly with supervision of the staff by representatives of the Regional Hospital Board . ’ |
| 21 | Other changes agreed were a reduction in the powers of the appointed ( and military-dominated ) Senate ; the appointment of the House of Representatives Speaker rather than the Senate Speaker as president of the National Assembly ; and an enhancement of the powers of the representatives . |
| 22 | The referendum , put forward by Ramon Mitra , the speaker of the House of Representatives , was backed by Cardinal Jaime Sin . |
| 23 | When Congress assembled the Speaker of the House of Representatives asked Hall to give the opening prayer and on a Sunday he preached before both Houses in the Capitol building . |
| 24 | Mr Conjuanco 's other main rival is his friend , Mr Ramon Mitra , former Speaker of the House of Representatives . |
| 25 | Tom Foley , the speaker of the House of Representatives , has said that if the president were to ask for the authority to use force , there is a presumption that he would get it . |
| 26 | At the end of the first session of the 97th Congress , Helen Dewar reported in the Washington Post : Even one of Reagan 's severest critics , Tip O'Neill , the former Speaker of the House of Representatives , does not underestimate Reagan 's early achievements : ‘ ( He ) pushed through the greatest increase in defense spending in American history together with the greatest cutbacks in domestic programs and the largest tax cuts the country has ever seen . ’ |
| 27 | Gingrich had been the first to lay formal charges which had led to the resignation on June 6 of the Speaker of the House of Representatives , Jim Wright [ see p. 36650 ] , and it was widely believed that his own investigation had been initiated in revenge in April by Representative Bill Alexander ( Dem. , Arkansas ) who on Oct. 26 filed new charges against Gingrich for alleged misuse of campaign funds and of congressional stationery . |
| 28 | The Speaker of the House of Representatives , Thomas S. Foley ( Dem. , Washington ) , stated his opposition to any amendment of the Bill of Rights , however , arguing that the issue of flag burning was not so important as to make it " worth tampering with the most important repository of personal liberty that any country has ever established in its history " . |
| 29 | On July 3 Doe had reportedly agreed to resign at the request of a deputation of his remaining allies , including Vice-President Harry Moniba and Samuel Hill , the Speaker of the House of Representatives ( parliament ) , on condition that his own safety and that of the Khran people was assured . |
| 30 | In mid-November votes from the PAICF members secured the election of Abdel-Latif Arabiyat of the Moslem Brotherhood as Speaker of the House of Representatives . |