Sentence examples for height commissioner from inspiring English sources

"It's worth looking at what would be the costs and advantages of making hospitals a little more capable of withstanding a flood of a certain height," Commissioner Farley told me last year after Hurricane Irene.

At its height the UN high commissioner for refugees was spending one million dollars a day feeding almost three quarters of the country.

When he was appointed city parks commissioner at the height of the Depression, Central Park was dotted with fetid Hoovervilles.

At the height of the battle, Parks Commissioner Henry J. Stern inflamed the sizable dog constituency by calling those who flouted the law "dog terrorists".

Many of the commissioners rejected the height and bulk of both the proposed $800 million hospital building and the $800 million condominium tower.

A short walk from there on the same height is the plinth of the Commissioner's bungalow with a few walls gripped by trees.

The acting SES commissioner, Greg Newton, said at the height of the wild weather, the most serious problem was homes being flooded.

He did not want to let go of the Dodgers initially and he staged a battle for control against Commissioner Bud Selig that reached its height when McCourt put the team into bankruptcy.

Tensions have risen to new heights ever since Ray Kelly returned as police commissioner in 2002 and expanded the NYPD's terrorism-fighting mission.

In the face of opposition from the real estate industry, even Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani gave in and squashed his planning commissioner's proposal to limit the height of skyscrapers.

Before his fall at the height of the phone hacking controversy, the previous commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, declared in 2009 that after much hard work the force was no longer institutionally racist.