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From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

Congress formed a 9/11 commission to find out what had gone wrong.

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2026

The commission found two of the Danish wind farm developer’s U.K. projects should be primarily taxed in Britain, backing the company’s position.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The report was compiled by an independent commission and involved input from more than 12,000 people including patients and clinicians.

From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026

When appointed to a council committee to look into the proposal during the summer, one councilman refused, angrily protesting, “The council knows the need for a human relations commission, and it has failed to act...”

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Instead, the Tribune tracked the grants by reviewing the vehicle authority’s meeting records, as well as documents, agendas and discussions from 101 city councils and county commissions that approved or discussed Flock-related grants.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Invitations to the Bass event featured the names of every CAL board member, including three who sit on city boards or commissions.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Other professors had the ear of cabinet ministers and press barons and sat on royal commissions that shaped this or that national policy.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

Southeast Asia's biggest economy has long battled corruption in its public and private sectors despite strengthening anti-graft laws, creating special investigative commissions and arresting several high profile people.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

The end of the war brought an unceasing parade of high-profile visitors to Berkeley—military men, foreign dignitaries, important scientists from abroad—and a stream of invitations to join government commissions and corporate boards.

From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik

The Danish Environmental Protection Agency commissioned the report as part of its effort to determine how Denmark can meet the requirements of the EU Water Framework Directive.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

According to research commissioned by the Foreign Office, a third of young Britons surveyed did not consider travelling with luggage packed by someone else to be a risk.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

The EU executive would not be drawn on what further action it could take, but the independent European Data Protection Board commissioned a report expected in autumn looking at the glasses' "social acceptability".

From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026

It commissioned its first aircraft carrier in 2012, its second in 2019 and its third in 2025.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

She had even commissioned someone to write felicitous messages on red banners, as if my parents themselves had draped these decorations to congratulate me on my good luck.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

At the time she was laid to rest without a grave maker, but this month officials memorialized Raker by commissioning a permanent marker at her burial site.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

That assumes successful commissioning and ramp-up at the Edna May processing plant, and the Lake Johnston plant, which has a capacity of 3.2 million tons of ore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026

A Sky-ITV company would be foolish to pivot away from commissioning programmes with a national identity.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

The collaboration alternates between observing runs that collect scientific data and periods dedicated to commissioning and upgrading the detectors.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 2, 2026

“Something about commissioning a piece for the circus, he was quite enthused about it before he left.”

From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern