commissioner
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Then, following a legal challenge brought by a member of the Orange Order, a High Court quashed that decision in August and a parades commissioner resigned.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
"This procedure is entirely different from what has been done in the past," former election commissioner Ashok Lavasa told AFP.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
“No mayor has retained the same police commissioner from the administration prior to theirs since 1964,” she said, referring to Tisch, who was elevated under the previous mayor, Eric Adams.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Jim Cheffers, a former City Section commissioner, used to officiate in the Pac-8.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
During a visit to the Rad Lab in November 1946, AEC commissioner Lewis Strauss, a trustee of the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey, pulled him aside to offer him the institute’s directorship.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Restoring that trust won't be easy, nor will finding replacements for the current commissioners when their term comes to an end.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
In 2023, a federal audit flagged serious pesticide incidents in half a dozen counties and uncovered patchwork oversight by agricultural commissioners.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
To address uneven enforcement, the new rules would require agricultural commissioners to check whether companies were cited for violations in other counties, officials said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
In one instance, the report says, the two commissioners even wrote a letter complaining to the chief secretary, the top bureaucrat in the Indian government.
From BBC ● Sep. 24, 2026
Five thousand yellow chairs stood on the red-carpeted speaker’s platform, and in these chairs sat businessmen dressed in black, and foreign commissioners and clerics in scarlet, purple, green, and gold.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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