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Jukes said it was having "as big an impact as the pursuit of corrupt officers in Sir Robert Marks' commissionership".

From BBC • Sep. 17, 2025

“The last 22 years of my commissionership, we had no lockout, no strike, no nothing,” Selig said.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 28, 2025

Bell, at 64, had grown tired of the commissionership and, according to MacCambridge, had arranged a secret deal to buy back the Eagles at the end of the season.

From Washington Post • Jan. 29, 2023

He later accomplished something no one else in the family ever had in 2014: he won the first political race he ever entered in securing Texas’ land commissionership.

From Washington Times • Dec. 2, 2018

Upon his return to England in 1823 he was appointed to a commissionership of customs, an office which he retained for about ten years.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various