Sentence examples for commissioner hardly from inspiring English sources

Mr. Kelleher, the first deputy commissioner, hardly flinched.

In a city where minorities had long held grievances against a largely white police force, Mr. Koch's 1983 appointment of Benjamin Ward as New York's first black police commissioner hardly appeased critics, and a series of ugly episodes came to symbolize mounting racial troubles.

The commissioners "hardly agreed on anything", in Beadle's recollection.

The commission's composite index of economic sentiment was now above its long-term average, and inflation would remain moderate.Yet Olli Rehn, the economics and monetary affairs commissioner, was hardly jumping for joy.

John Randel Jr., the secretary, surveyor and chief engineer for New York City's street commissioners, was hardly the most popular public servant of his day.

For starters, he is the state's insurance commissioner, which is hardly an electoral launching pad.

Prominent no voices included Mario Monti, the former prime minister and ex-European commissioner, who is hardly an anti-establishment figure.

research commissioner Philippe Busquin hardly looks like a rabble-rouser.

And he lobbied Stern; the N.B.A. commissioner was sympathetic but hardly optimistic.

One of the great oxymorons and paradoxes of information technology regulation is that the governance of data privacy around the world to a large extent occurs through transgovernmental cooperation by data privacy commissioners; however, it has hardly received any attention among legal or political science scholars.

Ms. Gibbs was hardly the first Homeless Services commissioner to want to settle this suit.