Rulers have traditionally been the greatest of patrons, hiring artists to work at their courts, commissioning mighty murals and fine statues, and buying up masterpieces.
An analysis by The New York Times of states where courts, commissions or divided governments drew the maps found a much smaller disparity between the share of the popular vote and the number of seats won in Congress.
Russian human rights activists and lawyers make regular attempts to bring these conditions to the attention of international courts, commissions and media, but the most they have succeeded in doing is drawing attention to individual cases — and helping high-profile individuals stay alive.
Responding to TTP's retaliatory attacks, Pakistan has mounted deadliest counter-retaliation on TTP; first removing the moratorium on executions of terrorists by the special order, and secondly establishing military courts commissions (roughly based on Gitmo).
No painter of such limited talent, he felt, would have been given a court commission.
In Eleonora's private chapel at the Palazzo Vecchio, the first court commission that Bronzino received, the artist slipped Eleonora into his exquisite decorative scheme.
Without our role as officers of the court, commissioned to uphold the moral grandeur of the law, we're just a "used-car dealership without the burden of inventory".
Her court commissioned the volume of hours, or illustrated daily devotions, around the time she separated from her spendthrift husband, Arnold of Egmond, and began a futile 30-year effort to unseat him.
The court commissioned an international group of experts to address the authenticity of van Meegeren's paintings.
In court, the commission, represented by the office of Ohio's attorney general, Michael DeWine, asked the court to dismiss the lawsuit on procedural grounds.
