powerful committee

collocation in English

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powerful
adjective
uk
/ˈpaʊə.fəl/us
/ˈpaʊ.ɚ.fəl/
having a lot of power to control people ...
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committee
noun[C, + sing/pl verb]
uk
/kəˈmɪt.i/us
/kəˈmɪt̬.i/
a small group of people chosen to represent a larger organization and either make decisions or collect information ...
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(Definition ofpowerfulandcommitteefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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If such central direction had been attempted, most likely it would have been firmly resisted bypowerfulcommitteebarons.
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We know that the committee is going to be apowerfulcommittee.
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This matter was examined by a verypowerfulcommitteewhich was unable to find a solution.
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A verypowerfulcommitteewas brought together by my noble friend.
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However, these amendments would set up a very different and a morepowerfulcommittee.
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What, then, does thatpowerfulcommitteedo with all the answers that it receives to its penetrating questions?
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It was a verypowerfulcommitteeand it made a number of valuable suggestions.
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He was a very experienced chairman and it was a verypowerfulcommittee.
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Not so long ago a very interesting and verypowerfulcommitteewas appointed to consider the whole question of the telegraph service.
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It is therefore also incredibly important that there should be apowerfulcommitteewhich can help him when he does just that.
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This verypowerfulcommitteespent three and a half years on the matter.
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Somehow that seems to be a way of keeping the thieving hands of morepowerfulcommitteechairmen off their precious budget.
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Apowerfulcommitteestarted to produce one in 1933.
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As regards the question of holidays with pay to which reference has also been made, we have set up apowerfulcommitteeto deal with it.
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It is a verypowerfulcommittee.
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He was elected to the new city council, and quickly became chair of its mostpowerfulcommittee, the finance committee.
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In addition, the three service chiefs will be removed from the defence board, apowerfulcommitteethe defence secretary chairs.
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Crane did earn the vice-chairmanship of thepowerfulcommittee.
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The council of alderman and mayor de facto functioned as the executive council of the municipality, but de jure they were little more than apowerfulcommittee.
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