Sentences with phrase «by a select few members»

Sen. Mike Lee agreed with Tuttle's perception, in floor remarks last week charging that «all of this has already been pre-arranged, pre-cooked, pre-determined... by a select few members of Congress, working behind closed doors, free from scrutiny.

A club is only as good as those who run it, and should be run in a fair and equitable fashion by the members and the elected board representatives together, not by a select few members who feel that no other voices should be heard.

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... One insider said the donations are likely to be scrutinised by the influential Treasury Select Committee of MPs, which will grill new committee members over the next few weeks.»

«The mayor came forward and joined the issue of affordability with long - term capital support of the subway system together, and I think he appropriately, obviously at that time, focused on the incredible wealth that's available to a select few New Yorkers and really this would be a very modest imposition on them,» David Jones, an MTA board member appointed by de Blasio and president and CEO of the Community Service Society of New York, who supports the tax, said.

By working with just a few select secondary companies (see side bar for recommendations), you can offer your members almost complete «one - stop» shopping, allowing families to get fresh milk, pastured eggs, and produce along with laundry detergent and toothbrushes all at a single pickup.

Her loyal peon army and a select few members of her regime travel to different planets in the universe to take out the most powerful beings there and take over the planets one by one.

Just as The Dark Knight Rises begins to spill the beans on its particular cast of villians, Rocksteady have followed suit by revealing the first glimpse of oft - rumoured Batman: Arkham City villain, The Penguin, to a select few members of the press.

It is governed by a body called the House of Delegates — most of its 560 members are selected or, in a few cases elected, by state and local bar associations.

The US Congress, already in possession of a great deal of information about the torture conducted by the administration — which had been covered widely in the press, and had been briefed, at least in part, from the outset to a select few of its members — passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 and in so doing attempted to protect those responsible from criminal penalty under the War Crimes Act.