Sentence examples for obscure commission from inspiring English sources

In the case of Eurostat, we are talking about an extremely senior management figure: Yves Franchet, who heads the obscure commission department (and protests his innocence).

In 2002 he was moved to the obscure commission from his position as deputy commissioner by Martin Horn, the current commissioner, because the program he was overseeing had been discontinued, said Jack Ryan, a spokesman for Mr. Horn.

This week, when her doctors ordered her to spend the last weeks of her pregnancy in a hospital bed, it turned out that Ms. Swift is also running the only state in the union in which the state employees do not get paid unless the governor or lieutenant governor meets every single week with an obscure commission that has the formal power to approve the disbursing of the cash.

This week, this obscure commission moved to relax media ownership regulations - the final insult in a kabuki dance in which the public, quite openly, kicked in the teeth.

The legalities are obscure; the commission is looking into them.

But he took his case to an obscure city commission -- the Local Conditional Release Board -- which is empowered under state law to release offenders before their terms of one year or less expire.

Obama's decision to nominate him to the top spot at FERC, which regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas and oil, has generated an unprecedented amount of attention for what is typically an obscure federal commission.

As part of the announcements on Thursday, which thrust the once-obscure trading commission onto its biggest stage, the commission imposed a $100 million fine on the estate.

The basketball association had sold Yao's image to Coca-Cola without his permission, taking advantage of an obscure sports-commission regulation that grants the state the right to all "intangible assets" of a national-team player.

Marshall's most famous decision — Marbury v. Madison, which established the principle of judicial review — arose from Marshall's own failure as secretary of state to deliver the obscure William Marbury his commission as justice of the peace in the waning hours of the Adams administration.

"If we let this go, we are basically giving a blank cheque to any countries at war," Joanne Liu, MSF international president said, calling on the relatively obscure international humanitarian fact-finding commission (IHFFC), to open the investigation.