What's the difference between commissioner and consistory?
Commissioner
Definition:
(n.) A person who has a commission or warrant to perform some office, or execute some business, for the government, corporation, or person employing him; as, a commissioner to take affidavits or to adjust claims.
(n.) An officer having charge of some department or bureau of the public service.
Example Sentences:
(1) Two lunches are recoded with John Yates and Andy Hayman, the former assistant commissioners.
(2) The young European idealist who helped Leon Brittan, the British EU commissioner, to negotiate Chinese entry to the World Trade Organisation, also found his Spanish lawyer wife in Brussels.
(3) But still we have to fight for health benefits, we have to jump through loops … Why doesn’t the NFL offer free healthcare for life, especially for those suffering from brain injury?” The commissioner, however, was quick to remind Davis that benefits are agreed as part of the collective bargaining process held between the league and the players’ union, and said that they had been extended during the most recent round of negotiations.
(4) At the moment the MPA makes the appointments in consultation with the Met commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson.
(5) "I am deeply proud of the achievements of the Met since I became commissioner.
(6) If there’s a fire in the house, you don’t sit there saying we’re going to wait until the fire commissioner comes,” she said.
(7) Many cases before the commissioner remain unresolved, although those who wish to pursue matters to the tribunal as part of the transitional arrangements will not have to pay an additional fee to appeal to the tribunal.
(8) "At first sight, today's announcement of an independent commissioner is a missed opportunity to strengthen our co-ordinated approach to addressing these very serious matters.
(9) Deputy Commissioner Catherine Burn ran the counter-terrorism operation under Task Force Pioneer, which was led by assistant commissioner Mark Murdoch, who reports to Burn.
(10) Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan police commissioner, made the comments as he announced that Scotland Yard has begun two new inquiries.
(11) Hunt’s comments were, in many senses, a restatement of traditional, economically liberal ideas on relationships between doing wage work and poverty relief, mirroring, for example, arguments of the 1834 poor law commissioners, which suggested wage supplements diminished the skills, honesty and diligence of the labourer, and the more recent claim of Iain Duncan Smith’s Centre for Social Justice that the earned pound was “superior” to that received in benefits.
(12) Others who have put their names to it include Andrew Caplen, the Law Society president, Sir David Edward, a former European court of justice judge and Lord Blair, the former Metropolitan police commissioner.
(13) Howard was rebuked by the race discrimination commissioner, Tim Soutphommasane, within minutes of the interview being aired.
(14) According to the NYPD commissioner, Bill Bratton, whose voice almost cracked with emotion as he addressed the media on Saturday evening , the “digital warning poster” featuring a picture of Brinsley and his whereabouts arrived at the data centre at 2.47pm.
(15) The commissioner, Dyson Heydon, described the payment to the Hasluck election campaign as “extraordinary” in his final report, saying there was “a direct temporal connection between a meeting on workplace issues” and the “request for a contribution to the campaign”.
(16) John Yates, a Metropolitan police assistant commissioner, was criticised by the Conservative chairman of the Commons culture and media select committee, John Whittingdale, for failing to disclose information to MPs, but the Yard continues to refuse to say how many victims it has warned, and how many members of the royal household, military, police and government have been warned of evidence that Mulcaire intercepted their voicemail.
(17) The United Nations high commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) wants western nations to accept 30,000 of the 2.3 million Syrians who have fled their country.
(18) There is strong support across parties for Britain to act.” The children’s commissioner for England, Anne Longfield, giving evidence to the Lords’ committee on unaccompanied minors in the EU, said too many unaccompanied asylum seekers went missing from local authority care after they had been allocated a home.
(19) My office is analysing satellite images in an effort to shed more light on these extremely serious allegations,” the high commissioner said.
(20) • The United Nations moved a step closer to calling for an end to excessive surveillance on Tuesday in a resolution that reaffirms the “ human right to privacy ” and calls for the UN’s human rights commissioner to conduct an inquiry into the impact of mass digital snooping.
Consistory
Definition:
(n.) Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
(n.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
(n.) An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
(n.) A church tribunal or governing body.
(n.) A civil court of justice.
(a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory.
Example Sentences:
(1) These tinpot Torquemadas will not be satisfied, I suspect, until Archer follows the example of the Rev Harold Davidson, the former rector of Stiffkey, who in 1932 was found guilty by a consistory court of "associating with women of a loose character" and "embracing a young woman in a public room at a Chinese restaurant at Bloomsbury".
(2) Kelly said: "Now that the Ryan commission is finished we call upon Pope Benedict to convene a special consistory court to fully investigate the activities of Catholic religious orders in Ireland.
(3) John Kelly, the Isoca co-ordinator in Dublin, said: "Now that the Ryan [Laffoy] commission is finished, we call upon ... Pope Benedict XVI to convene a special consistory court to fully investigate the activities of the Catholic religious orders in Ireland.
(4) Walter Kasper, the cardinal Francis chose to speak on the subject at a consistory earlier this year, told La Repubblica newspaper this week that the church should try to find a "realistic application of doctrine", adding: "The church must never judge as though it had a guillotine in its hands."