Sentences with phrase «written by a committee»

«If no great book or symphony was ever written by committee, no great portfolio has ever been selected by one, either» Peter Lynch

I used to go to Mass at my university and one of the favourite hymns was written by a committee and really didn't make much sense.

It looks as if it has been written by a committee of 13 - year - old boys for whom penetrative sex is still only a rumour, and the resulting movie plays like a party political broadcast on behalf of the misogynist party.

It's the genuine article, an engrossing tentpole with serious themes, complex moral conflicts and emotional stakes, and one that doesn't feel as if it was written by committee or structured around big and familiar action set pieces.

The script feels like it was written by a committee desperate to get something, anything on - screen.

«The Comedian» is the story of a comic's career and of his personal life, and despite having been written by a committee of four, it has cohesion and the power to surprise.

He says, «No good poem was ever written by a committee.»

I do caution against letting your book be written by committee.

Writers with this fear will take five people's feedback and try to get it all into their manuscript turning their story into boring garbage written by a committee.

Writing by committee makes dullness.

From the genesis of the various films (inspiration for the Bruce Willis character in Armageddon was real - life firefighting legend, Red Adair), to their development (too many were written by committee), to the final product (following a test screening, The Avengers went through a major reworking), and on through their journey at the box office, The Gross looks at the way big business has impacted the industry, which has itself become a big business.

Glowing letters of recommendation are written by the committee members who know you well and your work.

It's all written by committee & the author is just there to supply a byline.

The report, in which I have been involved, was initiated by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, and was written by a committee of experts across Europe.

The 2002 NAS report — Abrupt Climate Change — inevitable surprises — was written by a committee of climate science luminaries.

I guess this is what you expect from a document written by a committee.

In early December, that group posted a statement written by a committee consisting of most of the climatologists assessing whether warming seas have affected hurricanes.

Then there is the introductory paragraph of the new site's e-book, which reads like a clause in a commercial document written by a committee of lawyers:

Written by a committee, this book is a concise reference to appellate opinion writing for new judges.

I'm talking about legal writing by committee.

Restatements are written by committees led by a distinguished law professor in the particular field called a «reporter» and unlike the West Digest System sacrifice being fully and accurately descriptive, in favor of articulating a single coherent theory of an area of law that theoretically represents a majority position of the states on that body of the common law, something that is more art than science.

The Discussion Paper, written by Committee members, is advertising, not a neutral, balanced presentation of issues and facts.

For example, LSUC ignores the problem and its duties as set out in s. 4.2 of the (Ontario) Law Society Act, while «fast - tracking» the Alternative Business Structures issue (ABS issue) to the quick creation of: (1) an ABS Committee (2) a (biased) ABS Discussion Paper written by the Committee; (3) the online publication of the responses thus obtained; (4) the online publication of a summary of those responses — all done by the work of those self - interested benchers who have campaigned hard to have ABSs made legal; and (5) a proposed vote in 2016 to determine the law society's position as to making ABSs legal.

Not exact matches

«I think it will be huge... Almost all of it is profit and I think we will get 3 years of that or more,» Shkreli wrote in an August message highlighted by the committee.

«The rules governing the suspension of security clearances were established to protect our national security by temporarily halting the flow of classified information until allegations are fully investigated and resolved,» committee ranking member Rep. Elijah Cummings wrote.

Last year, when asked about balanced budget legislation he told the House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance «I don't think writing something into law, and then expecting that future governments will be held by that, is realistic.»

In terms of ad space, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee unveiled a video advertisement written and directed by Ben Wexler, a producer for sitcoms like «Arrested Development» and «Community.»

In a note to investors ISS wrote that «The current pay and performance misalignment driven by ongoing problematic pay practices indicates poor stewardship of the board's Compensation Committee.»

The lawmakers, who control the tax - writing House Ways and Means Committee, said they would hold hearings on the measures, which are sure to be heavily attended by Washington lobbyists.

Cummings said in the letter, which he wrote with the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Rep. Eliot Engel, that «it appears that General Flynn violated federal law by omitting this trip and these foreign contacts from his security clearance renewal application in 2016 and concealing them from security clearance investigators who interviewed him as part of the background check process.»

«While I am not aware of evidence that the 2016 voting process itself was subjected to manipulation, and have no reason to doubt the validity of the election results, we know that the DHS and FBI have confirmed two intrusions into voter registration databases in Arizona and Illinois by foreign - based hackers,» Sen. Mark Warner, the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, wrote in a letter on Tuesday to Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly.

Each award is subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the 2007 Equity Incentive Plan and to those other terms and conditions specified by the Committee and memorialized in a written award agreement.

The Times also wrote that Bill Clinton spoke at a conference in Moscow on June 29, 2010 — which was after the Rosatom - Uranium One merger was announced in June 2010, but before it was approved by the Committee on Foreign Investments in the United States in October 2010.

From the evidence that has been published by The Guardian and The Observer this weekend, it seems clear that he has deliberately mislead the Committee and Parliament by giving false statements,» Collins wrote in a statement to the press.

Asked by a committee member about the terms of the GSR App not specifying that the data would be used for political targeting, he said he didn't write the terms himself but added: «If we had to do it again I think I would have insisted to Mr Wylie that we do add politics as a use - case in that doc.»

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His stock response to the committee's concerns about divisive political ads was that Facebook believes «radical transparency» is the fix — also dropping one tidbit of extra news on that front in his written testimony by saying Facebook will roll out an authentication process for political advertisers in the UK in time for the local elections in May 2019.

«We didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake,» he said in written remarks released by the US House Energy and Commerce Committee on Monday.

We would like the session here to place by 24 May,» the committee writes in its latest letter to the company, signed by its chair, Conservative MP Damian Collins.

Written communications submitted by stockholders recommending the nomination of a person to be a member of TD Ameritrade's board of directors will be forwarded to the chair of the nominations committee.

In written evidence provided to the committee today Facebook says it has been helping ongoing investigations into «the Cambridge Analytica issue» that are being undertaken by the UK's Electoral Commission and its data protection watchdog, the ICO.

The Board and its committees met throughout the year on a set schedule, held special meetings, and acted by written consent from time to time as appropriate.

«Our management and risk committees will evaluate each hard fork on a case by case basis,» wrote LedgerX.

The audit committee is governed by a written charter, which is available free of charge on the investor relations section of our website at www.jcrew.com or upon written request to the Secretary of the Company, J.Crew Group, Inc., 2 Penn Plaza, 26th Floor, New York, New York 10121.

In a written petition sent to the House Committee on Ethics dated Feb. 5, Colorado House Representative Jared Polis argued that, because cryptocurrency assets are regarded as commodities by several agencies, Congress members should follow the same financial disclosure requirement as for traditional assets.

The Committee shall meet in person or telephonically at least two times a year at a time and place determined by the Chairperson, with further meetings to occur, or actions to be taken by written consent, when deemed necessary or desirable by the Committee or its Chairperson.

Under these rules, a company of which more than 50 % of the voting power is held by an individual, a group or another company is a «controlled company» and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements of the, including (1) the requirement that a majority of the board of directors consist of independent directors, (2) the requirement that we have a nominating and corporate governance committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities and (3) the requirement that we have a compensation committee that is composed entirely of independent directors with a written charter addressing the committee's purpose and responsibilities.

The Compensation Committee has duties and powers as described in its written charter adopted by the Board.

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