roving commission
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“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 had a commission as correspondent for the Times, which after a bit was made a roving commission.
From Time Magazine Archive
He lost a leg at the battle of Gettysburg, which incapacitated him for active service, so President Lincoln gave him a sort of roving commission to visit and inspect all the western troops.
From The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865 by Stillwell, Leander
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