Sentence examples for past commission from inspiring English sources

"I know of no past commission statement that would treat as 'reasonable network management' a decision to slow traffic to a user who has paid, after all, for 'unlimited' service," wrote Mr Wheeler.

We must now turn to 'positive' retributivist accounts, which find punishment's positive justification in its relationship to the past commission of a crime (but see Berman 2011 for an argument that some recent versions of retributivism actually turn it into a consequentialist theory).

"I know of no past Commission statement that would treat as 'reasonable network management' a decision to slow traffic to a user who has paid, after all, for 'unlimited' service," Wheeler wrote.

Allocations often used to be based on past commissions paid by a client.

Major past commissions include the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation, WDR, the Bourges Festival and the Mellon Fund.

Past commissions have been inspired by the works of Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Alice in Chains.

Past Commissions – and Parliaments – disliked this restraint, and by-passed the provision from the outset.

But the fact that past commissions achieved less than expected does not mean we should automatically reject the idea.

There were none of the tears and less of the shouting that marked past commissions and no caucus threatened a walkout unless its non-negotiable demands were met.

The General, the Scientist and the Banker at the English Heritage Quadriga gallery shows artworks of the past, commissioned by 19th-century students, in their efforts to imagine the lives of ancient people.

The festival's offerings this season include jazz-based songs from the Harlem Renaissance, classical repertory from Spain and Scandinavia, 20th-century American songs (by Barber, Berlin, Bernstein, Blitzstein and Bowles) and a roundup of past commissions, including the Rorem work.