Assertion: baron | /r/CapableOf | submit in defence
Facets:
value: to a treasury select committee
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Despite his refusal to give funding to the retail banks, he retained his job, and submitted in defence to a Treasury Select Committee (New York Times/Financial Times, 20 September 2007) that his actions were on the basis that the Bank of England was the "lender of last resort" but subsequently supported moves to provide funding to those banks which had been nationalised or partly nationalised.[citation needed]