Sentence examples for distinguished commission from inspiring English sources

A distinguished commission made up of business grandees endorsed the costing of stock options on company books—save one man.

And I will soon appoint a distinguished commission of knowledgeable people to propose changes in our budget structure to avoid the wild fluctuations we've seen over the last four years and which we saw in the early '90s.

The only hopeful news recently has come from a distinguished commission of legal experts, who proposed a few sensible reforms that Chief Judge Judith Kaye could do on her own fairly quickly.

In 1947 a distinguished commission chaired by University of Chicago President Robert Maynard Hutchins and including First Amendment scholar Zechariah Chaffee, Jr.; poet, lawyer, and former Assistant Secretary of State Archibald MacLeish; theologian Reinhold Niebuhr; and historian Arthur M. Schlesinger issued a report entitled A Free and Responsible Press.

But each concentrated on new works, not stars, and serious music, usually distinguished, often commissioned.

Individuals who have been called by God to serve as ordained ministers are distinguished from commissioned ministers and lay ministers by deepening and strengthening their abilities as Christian leaders through rigorous study and an ordination interview process.

The PCC points out that they "are not separately distinguished" by the commission "at present". This implies that they might lobby for this separation when the new regulator arrives.

On one occasion, however, the author stuck his toe into the classical world: to write "The Fisherman and His Wife," an adaptation of a tale by the Brothers Grimm, as a libretto for a children's opera by the distinguished Boston modernist Gunther Schuller, commissioned in 1967 by the Junior League of Boston.

Assad's campaign in eastern Aleppo was distinguished by the near-constant commission of war crimes and crimes against humanity, in plain view.

The "Midsummer" score, he assured them, was not composed under orders (true only insofar as a commission can be distinguished from an order).

Those people, Mr. Brodhead pointed out, include both President Obama (political science major) and Mitt Romney (English), as well as most of the 54 members of the commission, which includes distinguished jurists, business leaders, artists, scholars, university presidents and politicians, many of whom offer stirring testimonials on the value of their own liberal arts training.