Sentence examples for a commission to attack from inspiring English sources

On Tuesday, the administration and Congressional Democrats agreed to create a commission to attack the deficit and the national debt.

Last year, Mr. Shevardnadze identified corruption as a major problem and appointed a commission to attack it.

In 492 bc he was sent to succeed the satrap (governor) Artaphernes in Ionia, with a special commission to attack Athens and Eretria.

Mr. Bradley countered that Barry Scheck, the Innocence Project's co-founder, and others were using the commission to attack their real target — the death penalty.

THE Bush administration was never overly enthusiastic about the bipartisan drive in Congress to create a commission to investigate the attacks of Sept. 11.

In 2002 President Bush had appointed a commission to look into the September 11 attacks, and two years later it issued its final report.

Correction: March 23 , 2002 Saturday An article yesterday about a decision by the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee creating a commission to investigate the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks misstated the vote.

The weapons could have been used by the Drumbeg ship's crew to ward off privateers, privately-owned armed vessels commissioned by a state to attack an enemy's shipping.

Privateer, privately owned armed vessel commissioned by a belligerent state to attack enemy ships, usually vessels of commerce.

A vote this week on a proposal to create a bipartisan commission to recommend ways to attack rising federal deficits was seen as illustrative of the Republican strategy to thwart Democrats.

At the time, Britain and France were at war, a nearly chronic condition, and each country commissioned private vessels to attack the other side's ships.