commissioner

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African governments have expressed alarm, and Ghana is planning to repatriate this week hundreds of its nationals, its high commissioner Benjamin Quashie told AFP at the weekend, admitting many had expired work permits.

From Barron's • May 25, 2026

According to Liberty, In 2023 the government's biometrics and surveillance camera commissioner Fraser Sampson said that camera on an officer walking down the street could check hundreds if not thousands of people while on duty.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

His reason: Baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis had to sign off on the all-star game, and he had been appointed to the position in 1920 to clean up baseball’s tarnished image.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

Dave Kautter, a tax attorney who served in the first Trump administration as an acting IRS commissioner and assistant Treasury secretary for tax policy, said he wasn’t outraged by the settlement agreement and its addendum.

From MarketWatch • May 20, 2026

He had been police commissioner for just twenty-seven months.

From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt