executive council
noun
1
: a council constituted to advise or share in the functions of a political executive
2
: a council that exercises supreme executive power
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Typically, the committee prepares a report and the sale then is voted on by an eight-owner executive council, which is chaired by Commissioner Rob Manfred and is different than the ownership committee.
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Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024
Typically, the ownership committee, which is chaired by Philadelphia Phillies owner John Middleton, prepares a report that is then voted on by an eight-owner executive council.
—Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024
At a meeting later this year of the program’s executive council, the committee will present recommendations on how to accelerate progress toward the 2025 goal.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023
Later this year at the Chesapeake Bay Program’s executive council meeting, a committee will deliver initial recommendations for a new bay restoration strategy leading up to 2025.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 2023
The marker was removed after two Republican members of Concord’s executive council, Joseph Kenney and David Wheeler, denounced it.
—Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
Gonzalez and her team work with a nearly 50-member executive council made up of the heads of labor councils and unions across the state.
—Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
Swindells was elected by a pilots' union executive council that consists of 19 pilots.
—CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has issued a new directive to its members advising them not to accept WGA work in event of a strike in the U.S. The advice came via a motion from the WGGB’s executive council.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2024
Typically, the ownership committee, which is chaired by Philadelphia Phillies owner John Middleton, prepares a report that is then voted on by an eight-owner executive council.
—Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024
At a meeting later this year of the program’s executive council, the committee will present recommendations on how to accelerate progress toward the 2025 goal.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 20 July 2023
Later this year at the Chesapeake Bay Program’s executive council meeting, a committee will deliver initial recommendations for a new bay restoration strategy leading up to 2025.
—Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 6 June 2023
The marker was removed after two Republican members of Concord’s executive council, Joseph Kenney and David Wheeler, denounced it.
—Andrew Jeong, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
Gonzalez and her team work with a nearly 50-member executive council made up of the heads of labor councils and unions across the state.
—Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times, 8 May 2023
Swindells was elected by a pilots' union executive council that consists of 19 pilots.
—CBS News, 22 Dec. 2022
The Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (WGGB) has issued a new directive to its members advising them not to accept WGA work in event of a strike in the U.S. The advice came via a motion from the WGGB’s executive council.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 12 Apr. 2023
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