Sentence examples for called commission from inspiring English sources

Jackson argued in a lawsuit that what a horse trader called commission to an agent for help in selling a horse was actually a bribe or a kickback.

He left the company in 1983 to found Quicksoft, a software company that sold a word processor called PC-Write using a marketing plan that Mr. Wallace initially called commission shareware.

The relatives of influential and powerful individuals exploit their networking contacts to sponsor illegal transactions for a hefty fee, called commission.

Traditionally, the index used to assess impulsivity related to inhibition dyscontrol has been the responses to non-target stimuli (called "commission errors") [15], [16].

Last year, he was appointed to head a commission called "Commission of the Future," which is charged with finding ways to reform Brazil's scientific system.

An organization called Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) determined the standard values that are used worldwide to measure color.

LATHAM: We are in what's called "commissioning," or calibrating the performance of the cameras on the TESS spacecraft.

The documents that literally make the appointments, called commissions, should have gone from the White House personnel office to the White House executive clerk's office.

The error was discovered in September 2009 only after a second physicist received training on the equipment, made by BrainLAB, and the hospital began questioning whether the machine had been installed correctly in 2004, in a process called commissioning.

These fees are also called commissions.

However their executives were called "Commissions" rather than "High Authorities".