Sentence examples for commissioner set from inspiring English sources

Teddy Roosevelt read Riis, practically hero-worshipped him, and, as Police Commissioner, set about reforming the city's housing.

He succeeded Arkell as commissioner, set up the antiquities museum in Khartoum, founded the journal Kush, and was punctilious in writing up surveys and digs.

M.L.S. COMMISSIONER SET TO AGREE ON CONTRACT EXTENSION: Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber has reached a preliminary agreement on a contract extension through at least 2005.

The commissioner set the policy, Mr. Moore said, but left it up to his commanders, and those doing the work, to follow his path.

But others have questioned the example the commissioner set by having five white men in Major League Baseball's five highest-ranking positions below his.

In a 1996 primary in Dodge County, Ga., rival camps for county commissioner set up tables at opposite ends of the county courthouse and bid for voters' absentee votes in what a county magistrate later called a "flea market" atmosphere.

She wrote to Franz Fischler, the fisheries commissioner, setting out her objections to the fish package; they bore a striking resemblance to the Spanish government's own position paper.

98, 152 (oath in writing before U.S. circuit or district judge or commissioner, setting forth belief or reason to believe fraud on revenue committed on premises); Act of July 18 , 1866 14 Stat.

Secretary of State Ken ­Detzner, a Scott appointee, officially ordered recounts Saturday in the races for Senate, governor and state agriculture commissioner, setting the stage for what could be weeks of partisan warfare.

In London Boris Johnson's decision to sack two successive police commissioners set the depressing standard.

Headed by Frederick Howard, 5th earl of Carlisle, the commissioners set out in April, although they knew that the Franco-American Alliance had already been formed.