9 sentences with 'commission'
Example sentences and phrases with the word commission and other words derived from it.
• « In March 1992, after a year of work, the commission (composed, among others, of international experts in hydrology, botany, ecology and land use) wrote the epitaph of this business project. »
• « In the 178-page report delivered to Chaves, the commission pointed out the need to "protect the landscape and ecological resource represented by the still preserved coastline, and in particular the dune of El Asperillo". »
• « Its king, Djoser, was the first to commission a huge tomb to house his remains when he died: the first pyramid. »
• « A land commission set up by Tiberius Gracchus remained intact until 118 BCE, by which time it had redistributed huge tracts of land held illegally by the wealthy. »
• « Although there was a great deal of bloodshed among the powerful Renaissance families, their political competition often took the form of an ongoing battle over who could commission the best art and then "give" that art to their hometown, rather than fighting in the streets. »
• « On 11 November 1918, a voluntary commission of German politicians led by the German Socialist Party (SPD) formally demanded peace. »
• « In fact, if the commission of German politicians had not demanded peace when they did, French, British and American troops would simply have invaded Germany and even more people would have died. »
• « One of the most significant memorials to Holocaust victims is the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, conceived by a commission assembled by President Jimmy Carter in 1978 and finally dedicated by President Bill Clinton in 1993. »