subcommission

/ ˈsʌbkəˌmɪʃən /

noun

1. a committee of people answering to a larger commission

   the doping subcommission reported to the medical commission

Example Sentences

But the proposal was voted down earlier this month by the Subcommission on Quaternary Stratigraphy.

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Even if the subcommission’s vote is upheld and the Anthropocene proposal is rebuffed, the new epoch could still be added to the timeline at some later point.

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They note that the online tally, in which 12 out of 18 subcommission members voted against the proposal, was leaked to the press without approval of the panel’s chair.

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Opponents also felt AWG made too many announcements to the press over the years while being slow to submit a proposal to the subcommission.

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Eleven days after the war began, Putin empaneled a special “subcommission” there to review requests to sell.

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