Sentence examples for commissioners were responsible from inspiring English sources

The Commissioners were responsible for investigating reports of brutality in the discipline of prisoners confined at Joliet.

Although the commissioners were responsible for the regulatory framework within which the Poor Law Unions operated, each union was run by a locally elected board of guardians, comprising representatives from each of the participating parishes, assisted by six ex officio members.

Taken together, the commissioners are responsible for £8bn of spending on police in England and Wales.

It covered a possible takeover of some services at the hospital once commissioners are responsible for the hospital in April.

Setting out the force budget and community safety grants - taken together, the commissioners are responsible for £8bn of spending on police in England and Wales.

Commissioners are responsible for policing policy and can have control over the selection of the very highest echelons of the department's officers.

The commissioner is responsible for the Tube and London buses, and the Overground network comprising some commuter lines.

This is the man who, as European competition commissioner, was responsible for Microsoft being fined a record €497m, earning him the predictable nickname Supermario.

The tax assurance commissioner is responsible for setting tax policy and collection strategy and oversees tax settlements and deals with wealthy companies and individuals.

For years, New York City's Transit Police have muddled along under confused management: the head of the Transit Authority is responsible for policy, and the city's Police Commissioner is responsible for operations.

Nick Moon, the director of ICM, referred himself to the British Polling Council and was told there was no requirement to identify the person or organisation that commissioned the poll as long as neither ICM nor the poll's commissioner was responsible for the leak to the Guardian.