Sentence examples for commissioner was almost from inspiring English sources

Peter Hendy, London's transport commissioner, was almost as effusive: "It is a viable means of public transport," he enthused defensively.

The Portuguese commissioner was almost as impressive, giving the job of head-of-staff to his brother-in-law.

But Finance Minister Bill Morneau picking a fight with self-incorporated doctors while apparently forgetting to disclose his own tax-dodging corporate ownership of a fucking French villa to the ethics commissioner is almost too hamfisted to write.

But his advice to the mayor, unlike that of other commissioners, is almost always accepted without qualification, these aides say.

Michael Williams, a former Texas railroad commissioner, frankly said that it was almost impossible to raise money for the race in the shadow of Mr. Dewhurst.

There were times when commissioners vigorously dissented, but it was almost unheard-of for a chairman to be unable to get the backing of at least two other members.

Would a black NBA commissioner have specially sensed exactly who Sterling was? Almost 40 years ago the NBA had arrived at precisely that racial fork in the road.

In response, the state prison commissioner, Mike Haley, said death in the electric chair was "almost painless and immediate".

The commissioner's meeting with the labor minister, Andreas Loverdos, was almost thwarted when about 200 demonstrators tried to storm the ministry building in central Athens.

Despite the pleas of the Philippine commissioner and those of many others, the Doha summit was almost politics as usual.

("It was almost like a protest vote," the taxi commissioner said at the time).