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Definition of Blue ribbon committee
1. Noun. An independent and exclusive commission of nonpartisan statesmen and experts formed to investigate some important governmental issue.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Ribbon Committee
Literary usage of Blue ribbon committee
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Federal Immigration Law Enforcement in the Southwest: Civil Rights Impacts by John F. Dulles (1998)
"In December 1991 the San Diego city manager and chief of police established a
blue ribbon committee on violence.152 The panel, consisting of public ..."
2. Crucibles of Hazard: Mega-Cities and Disasters in Transition by James K. Mitchell (1999)
"The 1982 blue ribbon committee perhaps overemphasized vegetation management to
the exclusion of other mitigation approaches, such as coordination of ..."
3. Human Radiation Experiments: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental by DIANE Publishing Company (1998)
"In 1968 a blue-ribbon committee sponsored by the AEC reviewed the results of a
1967 radiological survey of Bikini and stated: "The exposures to radiation ..."
4. State of the Great Lakes: 1997 Annual Reportby Tom Bennett by Tom Bennett (1999)
"Public displeasure, primarily riparian, over the 1994 situation resulted in the
1996 appointment of a Macomb County blue ribbon committee to address ..."
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