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Quotes About Commission

There is a growing body of opinion in support of a royal commission. It's not an issue which will go away, because the global environment is changing around us.
~ Crispin Blunt
As for a plan of action, the group fell back on the usual punt by panels of this sort when they don't know what else to do: it recommended the creation of a presidential commission.
~ Fred Kaplan
Although I had resigned my commission as an officer two years before, I immediately left Switzerland, accompanied by my wife, in order to report for duty. As it happened, a wire reached me a day later calling me to the colors.
~ Fritz Kreisler
I could heartily wish that every commission officer was to be previously examined; for, to my certain knowledge, there are persons who have already crept into commission without abilities or fit qualification: I am myself far from desiring to be excused.
~ John Paul Jones
Besides helping to stock the library in San Marco, Vespasiano received another commission from Cosimo. Most of the codices were to be secured to their desks by chains attached to iron rails
~ Ross King
in 1935 the Irish government created the Irish Folklore Commission. In the following decades, Irish-speaking collectors scoured the countryside to record stories of saints, heroes, and spirits. Currently, more than a million and a half pages of folklore reside in the commission's collection which, since 1971, has been continued on by the Folklore Department at University College Dublin.
~ Ryan Hackney
What argufies pride and ambition? Soon or late death will take us in tow: Each bullet has got its commission, And when our time's come we must go.
~ Porfirio Diaz
Why are you worried about him? Des is a punk. (Urian) Desiderius is dead. Kyrian killed him. (Tabitha) Yeah, and I'm the Easter Bunny- see my fluffy tail? You don't just kill a Spathi, little girl. All you do is take him out of commission for a while. (Urian)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.
~ Elizabeth (Asquith) Bibesco
An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
~ attributed
O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) The ACRC plans to continuously promote anti-corruption policies and technical assistance projects for those countries that signed an MOU with the Commission. In addition, the Commission plans to expand the technical assistance recipients to the countries in Africa and South America, through the integrity education course for foreign public officials
~ Aury Wallington
O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) conducted in 2013 for the first time. The Commission also plans to strengthen the projects to share major Ombudsman policies (e.g. e-People) and investigating techniques, as well as to expand MOUs to protect overseas residents. In the meantime, it is planning to contribute to the capacity building of Ombudsmen by
~ Aury Wallington
O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) In 2013, the number of press reports increased by 19%, and the number of policy customers through SNS also increased by as much as 27%. Furthermore, public awareness of the Commission recorded 52.8%, a 1.3% points increase compared to the previous year, and the overall awareness of the ACRC's major policies also increased.
~ Aury Wallington
O1O'2920'8855 )PCASH( O1O'2920'8855 ) In addition, the Commission succeeded in arousing the sympathy of the people, by sharing individual complaint cases in emotional narrative form, accelerating the necessary shift of government policies. Based on the public sentiment, it also significantly contributed to raising the people's confidence in the government policies that have consideration for the socially disadvantaged
~ Aury Wallington
As the commission tartly noted, no two religious divines could agree on the definition of a Muslim. If the members of the commission tried imposing a definition of their own, the ulema would unanimously declare them to have gone outside the pale of Islam. Adopting the definition of any one religious scholar entailed becoming an infidel in the eyes of all the others.
~ Ayesha Jalal
With 'SMTV' it was a very brave decision by ITV to commission it for a year. It was so awful to start with and the ratings were so low to start with we might never have made it past the first six months.
~ Ant McPartlin
There's so much of this thing now, where you're supposed to do all the work before you get the commission. I think it's really good to try to resist that. If you just have a week to come up with a pitch for something, your ideas aren't going to be very good. Get your income from somewhere else, and keep your writing not tied into these contracts.
~ Whit Stillman
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
~ Samuel Butler
The more she saw of the galaxy the more she'd come to understand that sometimes the commission of a smaller sin was the unavoidable price of extirpating a much greater one.
~ Sandy Mitchell
Men of God have always, from time to time, walked among men, and made their commission felt in the heart and soul of the commonest hearer.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Like the matchmaker's commission, it was the sort of fee that had to be paid on the spot.
~ Sholem Aleichem
Y por esta razón, Jesucristo mismo dijo a Sus discípulos en Marcos 16:15: "Vayan por todo el mundo y anuncien las buenas nuevas a toda criatura"; es decir, ¡vayan y díganle a cada hombre, sin excepción, que hay buenas noticias para él! ¡Cristo murió por él! Y que si está dispuesto a recibirlo y a aceptar Su justicia, Cristo será suyo.
~ Sinclair Ferguson
Go, send, or disobey.
~ John Piper
I like to introduce myself, because THEN I can get in all the facts." The usually self-deprecating John Hay on the ironic formality of signing his own commission as Secretary of State.
~ John Taliaferro