Sentence examples for commissioned agents from inspiring English sources

That includes the use of commissioned agents, who help students through the admissions process — and sometimes write their application essays.

Philip G. Altbach, director of the Center for International Higher Education at Boston College, said he had a knee-jerk aversion to commissioned agents.

But the use of commissioned agents to recruit international students remains a highly divisive, hotly debated issue in higher education circles.

Ohio University, a public institution with more than 20,000 students, has done well with commissioned agents, especially in China, the source of more than half its foreign undergraduates.

"The market range is anywhere from 10to25percentent of tuition," said Visakan Ganeson, director of international programs at Skagit Valley College in Mount Vernon, Wash., which gets about half of its 200 international students through commissioned agents.

But colleges like the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, a small Baptist university in Belton, Tex., are thrilled to land more international students, like the 25 Chinese students who arrived this year, through new agreements with commissioned agents.

Most companies using the Internet have yet to offer discounts for bypassing a commissioned agent.

(Since airlines have eliminated travel agent commissions, agents usually charge a booking fee of $25 or so a ticket).

Riding slowly through the hordes of clerks, like farmers trying to drive hay-carts through a flock of sheep, are the Jewish commission agents in their flashy broughams.

Antwerp's complex of harbour and industrial activities is served by many commercial agencies, commission agents, import and export firms, banking establishments, insurance companies, road-transport enterprises, and railways.

Do not buy your ticket in İstanbul, as pensions and commission agents take a healthy cut.