Any "blue ribbon committee" creating a book of prayers acceptable enough to be read in the public classroom will ultimately mean that we will begin our prayers with, "To whom it may concern."

In August 2012, Commissioner Bud Selig's "blue ribbon" committee, which had been implemented to study potential ballpark locations for the Athletics, met with Oakland and San Jose officials.

During the 2007 session of the Maryland General Assembly, the Speaker appointed Griffith to chair the newly created blue ribbon committee on Retiree Health.

She also launched several blue ribbon committees: tech transfer and commercialization, research, information technology excellence, and organizational excellence.

The blue ribbon committee was therefore disbanded and Cattell, in failing health, died months later.

On July 23, 2002 in celebration of the Atlantic Coast Conference's 50th Anniversary, a 120-member blue ribbon committee selected the Top 50 football players in ACC history.

Note that president George W. Bush appointed a "blue ribbon" committee of the National Academy of Science (NAS) to study the problem further (dot the I's, cross the T's).

However, Michael Novak's idea of having a "blue ribbon committee" compile a book of such prayers ends in imposing uniformity rather than diversity while bringing us back to the Constitution's ban on government establishment of religion.

Montano then created the Blue Ribbon Committee, taking the name from other blue ribbon committees, with the mandate to investigate alleged irregularities from the executive branch.

Last spring a group of the most powerful Japanese businessmen formed a blue ribbon committee that will try to ease problems created by their investments in the United States.