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n. (plural of commission English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: commission)

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President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

Discovering that direct action was impracticable, the State legislatures created commissions to deal with the problem.

In the absence of attempts by Congress to limit his power, he may establish and prescribe the jurisdiction and procedure of military commissions, and of tribunals in the nature of such commissions, in territory occupied by Armed Forces of the United States, and his authority to do this sometimes survives cessation of hostilities.

The Treaty of Peace with Spain, the treaty to settle the Behring Sea controversy, the treaty establishing the boundary line between Canada and Alaska, were negotiated by commissions containing Senators and Representatives.

The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next Session.

One of the first acts of Jefferson was his instruction to Secretary of State Madison to withhold commissions to office which remained undelivered.

Prior to independence, vice-admiralty courts were created in the Colonies by commissions from the English High Court of Admiralty.

State commissions, the Supreme Court has placed various obstacles in the path of the complaining litigant.

State commissions and factual determinations which were found to be inseparable from the legal and constitutional issue of confiscation.

State commissions in drafting rate orders that will prove to be justiciably sustainable.

State commissions, except insofar as the latter operate in obedience to laws containing unique standards or procedures.

We have built on the work of several previous Commissions, and we thank the Congressional Joint Inquiry, whose fine work helped us get started.

Congress asked outside commissions to do the work that arguably was at the heart of its own oversight responsibilities.

Beginning in 1999, the reports of these commissions made scores of recommendations to address terrorism and homeland security but drew little attention from Congress.

These two composers, the former male, the latter female, had competed with each other for court commissions for fifty years.