Sentence examples for act of commissioning from inspiring English sources

The city has hired a succession of experts, a new research team every few years, to analyze the police department's use of force, but officials seem to have viewed the act of commissioning a report as a proxy for doing something about the problem.

Industrial manslaughter is still an act of commission as it involves allowing unsafe equipment to be used.

So both of them failed to do their jobs, Comey with an act of commission and Lynch with an act of omission.

One says that humans are more likely to judge an act of commission — for instance, a referee's calling a penalty — to be intrusive or consequential than they are an act of restraint.

Most important, senior members of the Senate committee, which played the dominant role, agreed from the outset that specific evidence of a Presidential "act of commission" would be necessary before Reagan himself would become a target.

Perhaps more important, some members were concerned that the lack of Presidential control over the joint United States-Israeli operation was an "act of commission" that met the standards raised by Warren Rudman and Arthur Liman to begin an impeachment proceding.

The act of omission in our current culture is more difficult than the act of commission.

The act of commission - putting in the ICD - is easier to bear.

This is not an act of commission but an act of ignorance on behalf of the nonprofits.

"It's an act of commission," Johnson said, "that's very, very dangerous for the future of our financial system".

Tuskegee was subject to judicial review and repeal because the municipality engaged in an act of commission: It essentially threw out residents who had previously lived there, and for obviously racially motivated reasons.