Sentence examples for commission man from inspiring English sources

As a commission man, Scheer works for anywhere from 8 to 12 different publishers at a time; he represents medium-sized & small houses.

He also wrote about the "commission men" who represented shippers and the agents who bought the chickens and then sold them to the slaughterhouses.

"It's perhaps important to add in view of allegations made subsequently about the weekend that those Upholder discussions involved government to government negotiations or navy to navy leasing arrangements which had nothing to do with third party contractors, or businessmen or middle men or commission men or anyone else".

The gender imbalance at the heart of the British and American literary establishment has been laid bare by a new study confirming that leading literary magazines focus their review coverage on books written by men, and commission more men than women to write about them.

The Mail on Sunday would like to make clear that it did not commission the man, who was not an escort.

ACCORDING TO THE U.S. SENTENCING COMMISSION Black men's sentences are twenty percent longer than white men's for similar crimes.

This rare ability to fuse the political and the poetic explains why the European elite were so keen on commissioning a man who was, according to Hale, "the greatest portraitist of the ­Renaissance".

By 1880 the Navy only had 48 ships in commission, 6,000 men, and the ships and shore facilities were decrepit but Congress saw no need to spend money to improve them.

Against this background, in 1768 a committee of men commissioned James Brindley to survey a route, in the form of a canal, between Taunton and Exeter; and the survey was duly carried out by Robert Whitworth in 1769.

Carty, 57, has protested her innocence on charges that she commissioned three men to carry out the kidnapping and murder of neighbor Joana Rodriguez in 2001.

YES, much of Southern Europe teeters on the edge of default, the Arab Spring shows signs of turning sour, even China's economy is slowing, Ukraine is backsliding into authoritarian rule, Iran is allegedly commissioning hit men in America and last week we learned that our Afghan allies have been engaged in the wholesale torture of prisoners.