Sentence examples for commissioner beginning from inspiring English sources

The tireless NBA commissioner, beginning his 24th year running the league, just completed an eight-day, five-country overseas tour as part of the league's exhibition schedule leading up to the 2006-07 season.

Eighteen months ago Mr Almunia, the European Union's competition commissioner, began a formal investigation.

Local firefighters topped up Trevor's puddle after New Zealand's former high commissioner began feeding him.

Unbeknownst to Davis, the NFL and a number of AFL owners agreed to merge the two leagues just two months after Davis's reign as commissioner began.

Just before the commissioner began speaking, a group of nine parents and children from El Salvador and Panama traversed the Rio Grande, and agents led them to the processing center on foot.

Mr. Silver, whose tenure as commissioner began this year, made the announcement at a news conference in New York, where the N.B.A.'s headquarters are.

The commissioner began by saying that stop-and-frisk is a component of a set of policies and initiatives that have contributed to the drop in crime.

Mr Laws paid back over £50,000 and the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner began an investigation, which has taken almost a year to report back.The wait has been stressful for Mr Laws, and the verdict is hardly a relief.

In his report, Mr. Fisch found that beginning in December 2005, subordinates of Ms. Billet, then a deputy commissioner, began searching for entry-level lawyer openings to reserve for Ms. Billet and another lawyer at the department, Marvis Warren.

He pointed to what had happened at the Customs Service after he and Paul J. Browne, an adviser there who is now a deputy police commissioner, began monitoring the number of searches to see if they were being made unnecessarily.

Raymond P. Martinez, the state motor-vehicles commissioner, began his hour-and-a-half-long testimony by reminding the audience that 18 of the 19 hijackers on 9/11 held valid driver's licenses.