Sentence examples for temporary commission from inspiring English sources

The first use of the name chambre de commerce was in regard to a temporary commission set up in Paris in 1601 to examine industrial and commercial problems.

Brazil's Senate has decided to create a temporary commission to review dam safety legislation - a new mining code has been stuck in Congress for years.

In 1794 Barbier became a member of the temporary commission of the arts and was charged with distributing among the various libraries of Paris the books confiscated during the Revolution.

Exploiting Europe's fear of an Islamic government, the Algerian army intervened to halt the second round of voting, forcing the president to step down and a temporary commission to rule the country.

"I don't think that the service-demanding public would be losers at all," said Raymond D. Horton, a Columbia University Business School professor, who was the executive director of the temporary commission on city finances during New York City's fiscal mess.

He then trained as a pilot with the RFC in Egypt, where he obtained a temporary commission as a second lieutenant on 24 October.

In February 1944 temporary commissions were authorized for army and navy nurses.

'Junction' is a series of temporary commissions for Leeds city centre utilising the ubiquitous 'junction box' as its canvas.

In the last decade the space has been revived as a successful platform for temporary commissioned contemporary works.

MetroTech Center Things are less rewarding in "Halcyon Days," the annual exhibition of temporary commissions on the well-manicured MetroTech Common in downtown Brooklyn.

Since the inauguration of the fourth plinth project by the mayor's office in 2005 as a regular series of temporary commissions, the site – in the square's north-west corner, in front of the National Gallery's Sainsbury wing – has hosted works ranging from Marc Quinn's Alison Lapper Pregnant to Yinka Shonibare's Nelson's Ship in a Bottle.