committee-room love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A room in which a committee holds its meetings.

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Examples

  • It does not need to revert to the old committee-room power struggles of the past.

    What now for Indian cricket in the post-Lalit Modi era? David Hopps 2010

  • Lots of very strong reforms wound up on the committee-room cutting floor.

    Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [78] -- A Mixed Week 2009

  • He also reiterated his suggestions for the committee-room décor.

    Senate Finance Committee Approves Health Care Reform 14-9 2009

  • But it's a possibility — and the committee-room presence of Jeff Novitsky, the ace Internal Revenue Service investigator who built the Feds 'perjury case against Barry Bonds, was a reminder of the stakes at hand.

    A Pitcher’s Duel 2008

  • But those guidelines did not come from transit utopians on city staff -- they are the product of tough committee-room skirmishes between bike/pedestrian advocates on the one hand and builders and developers on the other.

    Archive 2007-09-01 David Wharton 2007

  • But those guidelines did not come from transit utopians on city staff -- they are the product of tough committee-room skirmishes between bike/pedestrian advocates on the one hand and builders and developers on the other.

    Roads, Bike Lanes, Perfect Worlds, And Old Fashioned Politics David Wharton 2007

  • Athenaeum, assembled in their committee-room, and thence marshalled by the chairman and vice-chairman to his rostrum in the lecture-hall, round about which the magnates of the institution and the notabilities of the town were rallied on this public occasion.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • The slight additional task of sitting four hours in a committee-room three days a week, was only a delight, the more especially as during those four hours he could occupy the post of

    He Knew He Was Right 2004

  • They met at the door of the committee-room when Mr. Nogo had just put his 999th question to the adverse witness; and as the summons to prayers prevented the 1,000th being proceeded with at that moment, Undy and Alaric sauntered back along the passages, and then walking up and down the immense space of Westminster Hall, said each to the other what he had to say on the matter mooted between them.

    The Three Clerks 2004

  • At ten he walked down to the central committee-room at Whitehall

    The Way We Live Now 2004

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