commissioner
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He ran into the office NFL commissioner Roger Goodell was using and told him "I wanna do it".
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2026
It’s why Petitti has been to Washington 21 times, he said, during his tenure as commissioner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
Known as Lord Roe of West Wickham, a former firefighter and London Fire Brigade commissioner, he received a life peerage and took his seat in The House of Lords in January.
From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026
The United Nations General Assembly voted Friday to renew Volker Turk's mandate as high commissioner for human rights for four years despite strong opposition from the United States, Russia and Israel.
From Barron's ● Jul. 24, 2026
When an embarrassed police department and Bull Connor, Birmingham’s commissioner of public safety, saw that they were losing the battle to youngsters, things started getting nasty.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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It took state insurance commissioners four years to clamp down on one kind of structured debt.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Police and crime commissioners will be abolished as part of plans to devolve powers to Norfolk and Suffolk and create a mayorship covering the two counties.
From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026
Many commissions cannot conduct business without a quorum of a simple majority of commissioners.
From Slate ● Jul. 13, 2026
Former Gov. Jerry Brown, who signed the Coastal Act into law in 1976, once called the commissioners “bureaucratic thugs.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Along with the other two city commissioners, Jabo Waggoner and Art Hanes, Connor bought concrete and poured it in the golf course holes.
From "While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement" by Carolyn Maull McKinstry
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