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Example sentences for "special commission"

  • A special commission also is investigating the problem of petroleum oil for the Navy, considering the best policy to insure the future supply of fuel oil and prevent the threatened drainage of naval oil reserves.

  • A special commission, composed of an equal number of Mussulmans and Christians to superintend the execution of the reforms proclaimed and proposed.

  • A special commission composed of an equal number of Mussulmans and Christians to superintend the execution of the reforms proclaimed and proposed.

  • Sir Thomas More was placed on his trial in Westminster Hall before a special commission (1st July).

  • He requested that an express royal command should be addressed to the people generally to accept the change, and that a special commission should be given to himself to enforce the liturgy.

  • On Thursday, September 28th, he was arraigned before a Special Commission on a charge of high treason at Clonmel.

  • Russell was taken to Downpatrick, escorted by a strong force of cavalry, where he was lodged in the governor's rooms, preparatory to being tried in that town by a Special Commission.

  • Colonel Laurens, as your Excellency knows, was sent by Congress to the Court of Versailles, with a special commission; the purport of his mission you are well acquainted with; it was to obtain certain supplies in specie and military stores.

  • You have told me that four persons are empowered by a special commission to treat of peace.

  • Every third year the Riksdag appoints a special commission to determine whether all of the members of the Supreme Court "deserve to be retained in their important offices.

  • The custom has been to constitute admiralty and vice admiralty courts into prize courts by special commission on the outbreak of war.

  • This right was only legal under special commission of the sovereign though England seems to have taken a very lenient attitude in dealing with non-commissioned captors even granting them a share of their prizes.

  • It therefore is a perpetual prize court and requires no special commission.

  • Despard, however, with twenty-nine of his followers were arrested in the act of deliberating on the execution of their designs; and in the month of February of this year were tried by a special commission.

  • A special commission, also, was ordered to proceed into those counties where the outrages were committed.

  • In the Swedish case, was found the precedent for a "Special Commission of Oyer and Terminer.

  • Whereupon Judges had a Special Commission to find, and root out the hellish crew; and the rather, because another County in the Kingdom, which had been so molested, was delivered upon the execution of the Witches.

  • A special commission, like that of 1289, scrutinised the acts of the royal officials throughout the kingdom, and exacted heavy fines from the many who were found wanting.

  • Edward's return to London The ministers displaced and a special commission appointed to try them 30 Nov.

  • Edward met the innumerable complaints against his subordinates by dismissing nearly all the judges from office, and appointing a special commission to investigate the charges brought against royal officials of every rank.

  • Two examinations, a scientific and a practical one, the latter taken before a special commission, tests the eligibility of candidates, foreigners not excluded, for positions.

  • The control in each enterprise is to be organized “either by the Shop or Factory Committee or by the General Assembly of workers and employees of the enterprise, who elect a Special Commission of Control” (Article I).

  • A special commission will be formed for the reorganization of the works.

  • Control in each enterprise is organized either by the Shop or Factory Committee, or by the General Assembly of workers and employees of the enterprise, who elect a Special Commission of Control.

  • But a special commission, which should effectually carry out the work which he contemplated, must be of a very unusual kind.

  • The consequences were deeds of violence and murder, which called for the intervention of the senate, and the consuls had been appointed as a special commission to inquire into the outrages.

  • We can hardly think of a Special Commission.

  • He carried a resolution that a special commission should be established by the people to continue the investigation.


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