What's the difference between commissioner and procuration?
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.
Procuration
Definition:
(n.) The act of procuring; procurement.
(n.) The management of another's affairs.
(n.) The instrument by which a person is empowered to transact the affairs of another; a proxy.
(n.) A sum of money paid formerly to the bishop or archdeacon, now to the ecclesiastical commissioners, by an incumbent, as a commutation for entertainment at the time of visitation; -- called also proxy.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fetal monitoring (electronical and gasanalytical) is able to acknowledge in due time a hypoxic situation and procures favourable to the perinatal morbidity.
(2) Thus, HBsAG screening should be done along with the implementation of a blood policy that ensures the procurement of sufficient blood for hemotheraphy in Ethiopia.
(3) Procurement has already brought down prices in foster care significantly in recent years, so differences between the costs of placement options may now be marginal.
(4) A mother is facing prosecution for procuring abortion pills for her then underage daughter.
(5) The number of synaptic sites is regulated by both pre- and postsynaptic cells, in proportion to their cell surfaces; an independent size increase in the receptor terminals (procured in the Drosophila mutant gigas) produces an increase in their synaptic population.
(6) Currently, procurement is obtained from living donors.
(7) Since 1986, the number of kidneys procured in New York City increased while the number procured nationally fell.
(8) The vigilantes use shotguns and cartridges and have been short in supply, so the leader left yesterday for Maiduguri to procure more in the event of any attack,” he told AFP.
(9) Different procurement systems have already made England a slightly "different country" for Scottish suppliers, many of whom are more concerned about Cameron's equivocal attitude towards the European Union.
(10) ChE depression is determined by comparison of the affected specimen to normal ChE activity for a sample of control specimens of the same species, but timely procurement of controls is not always possible.
(11) With cities moving markets, joint procurement standards generate great potential for economies of scale, from buses to smart street lighting.
(12) These results justify the use of UW solution by intraaortic flush especially during multi-organ procurement.
(13) The taskforce said "smarter use" could be made of the government's £150bn procurement budget to better support innovation and suggested the creation of a new Department for Science and Innovation under its own secretary of state.
(14) A previously described technique of simultaneous whole liver and pancreas procurement depended on "classic" hepatic arterial anatomy, which is present just over half the time.
(15) Procurement experts looking to work in this part of the world will get great experience of project contracting work, demandfor which are likely to continue to increase.
(16) The Southeastern Regional Organ Procurement Program has developed a computerized system for the selection of organ transplant recipients.
(17) Despite increasing referrals for organ donation in metropolitan New York, procurement has remained essentially unchanged from 1983 through 1988 at 9 to 13 per million population, falling far short of increasing demand.
(18) Surgical-pathologic staging was performed laparoscopically, with exploration of the abdomen and procurement of peritoneal cytology and pelvic and para-aortic lymph nodes.
(19) Although private capital was gradually replaced by public investment, the latter was much less productive as criminal organisations distort and corrupt the public procurement process.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Italian anti-mafia prosecutor, Giovanni Falcone.
(20) The reliability of these techniques is dependent on proficient specimen procurement and the cytopathologist's expertise and experience.