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Russia’s Surgeon General Anna Popova held an emergency meeting with the Irkutsk antiepidemiological commission on Friday.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Last Friday, the commission decided that the march could go ahead with restrictions in place.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The commission found City had arranged "sham" commercial deals with a number of its sponsors that were part of a "disguised funding scheme".
From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026
“I do want to figure out a way to preserve legible chunks of it in some form or other,” said Koelsch, who hopes to commission a new curtain for the 2027-28 season.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
The upshot was that a papal commission was set up to look into the affair.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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City Charter would reduce the amount the City Council meets from three times a week to once, among other changes to ethics commissions and campaign finance penalties.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
“The monetization path for Muse, including ads, subscriptions and commissions, seems unlikely to be material before 2028,” he said.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026
The Lucas also features several fresh commissions, including lackluster sociopolitical infiltrations by Banksy—a calculated bid for street cred.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Instead, the Tribune tracked the grants by reviewing the vehicle authority’s meeting records, as well as documents, agendas and discussions from 101 city councils and county commissions that approved or discussed Flock-related grants.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
While she was showing me her different makeup applicators, the woman, who had stiff platinum hair and eyelashes tarred in mascara, told me I must be earning a truckload in commissions.
From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls
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The Texas company’s first commissioned opera, with a score by Jorge Sosa and a libretto by John de los Santos, is a Mexican-infused take on a fairy tale.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
Each stillbirth was investigated and an independent review commissioned into 11 cases.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
She has commissioned an independent review into the response and recovery, and said she is backing calls for a change in international rules about how plastic nurdles are transported.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
She was the point of the painting, as if she or someone powerful had commissioned it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026
Thirteen machines of thirty-five inches or more had been commissioned or were already operating in the United States by late 1939.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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Renfrewshire Council said it was now commissioning an independent learning review into the case.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026
At the time she was laid to rest without a grave maker, but this month officials memorialized Raker by commissioning a permanent marker at her burial site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
And after the election then-Prime Minister Keir Starmer effectively kicked the issue into the long grass by commissioning Louise Casey to investigate social care reform and report back in 2028.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
That assumes successful commissioning and ramp-up at the Edna May processing plant, and the Lake Johnston plant, which has a capacity of 3.2 million tons of ore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Because from here, we can look down through the last century and see the fallout of a single theory: the Rich American commissioning a Consummate Professional to steal a Great Painting.
From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day
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