roving commission
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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In Orlando, there was further evidence that Tuchel has effectively given Kane a roving commission to link, create and score – all tasks he performs superbly.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2026
“The judiciary doesn’t sit as a roving commission to rule on the legality of either Congress’s enactments or the executive’s implementation of those enactments,” U.S. solicitor general Elizabeth B. Prelogar pointed out.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2023
“What you have to understand is, we were not in effect a roving commission to explore everything, the insides and outs, what took place here.”
From Washington Times ● Sep. 25, 2015
“This court is not a roving commission that offers instinctual legal reactions to interesting issues that have not been raised. ,” the court wrote in the 2008 decision.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 20, 2014
He saw his way to make money out of Phillips, and had also been offered a roving commission on the Continent to purchase horses for the Army.
From Hard Pressed by White, Fred M. (Fred Merrick)
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