Crossword-Solution: COMMISSIONS
We have 1 clue for the answer “COMMISSIONS”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| Post-disaster appointments | 1 answer |
✏️ Suggest another clue
Know another question for crossword solution "COMMISSIONS"? Please add your clue to the biggest crossword databank now!
Kind of apple
?
E
?
A
?
T
?
E
?
R
Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
9 +1
New Suggestion for "COMMISSIONS"
Related word tools
Sentences with COMMISSIONS (5)
The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall expire at the End of their next session.
His practice had become little more than a vague legend, revived only at lengthening intervals by a summons to Hepburn or Nettleton; and he appeared to depend for his living mainly on the scant produce of his farm, and on the commissions received from the few insurance agencies that he represented in the neighbourhood.
And how can it be expected that railroad commissions who are chosen--well, let's be frank--as ours was, for instance, from out a number of men who don't know the difference between a switching charge and a differential rate, are going to regulate the whole business in six months' time? Cut rates; yes, any fool can do that; any fool can write one dollar instead of two, but if you cut too low by a fraction of one per cent.
She dreaded his seeing Owen again, and yet dared not tell him so, and to ensure his remaining away she mentioned an urgent engagement with her dress-maker and a long list of commissions to be executed for Madame de Chantelle.
Winifred intervened, “don't you see how badly that might work nowadays? now that the good families have so little money, and all the fortunes are in the hands of stockjobbing people--and so on? It would be THEIR sons who would buy all the commissions--and I'm sure Balder wouldn't get on at all with that lot.” Lady Plowden answered with decision and great promptness.
Quotes with COMMISSIONS (3)
My view of the charity world is that compared with business, there is too much talk, way too many meetings and expert panels and blue-ribbon commissions, and not enough action. Or as an Australian friend of mine once opined: "Sometimes you just have to have a go and get on with it, mate!".
Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone.
I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me become a Communist, but what had attracted me to the movement more than anything, dazzled me, was the feeling (real or apparent) of standing near the wheel of history. For in those days we actually did decide the fate of men and events, especially at the universities; in those early years there were very few Communists on the faculty, and the Communists in the student body ran…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2005).