to sit on a commission

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• Sit on My Face — is a short song by the members of Monty Python s Flying Circus. The song originally appeared on the album Monty Python s Contractual Obligation Album and subsequently on Monty Python Sings and was performed at the Hollywood Bowl in the… …   Wikipedia

• sit|ting — «SIHT ihng», noun, adjective. –n. 1. a) a meeting or session of a court, legislature, commission, or anything like it: »The hearing lasted for six sittings of the court. b) the period of time occupied by this. 2. a) a time of remaining seated:… …   Useful english dictionary

• commission — Synonyms and related words: accomplishment, accredit, achievement, administration, allotment, allowance, appoint, assemblee, assembly, assign, assignation, assignment, at home, authorize, avails, ball, bicameral legislature, bid, big end, bigger… …   Moby Thesaurus

• commission of assize — /kamishan av asayz/ In English practice, a commission which formerly issued from the king, appointing certain persons as commissioners or judges of assize to hold the assizes in association with discreet knights during those years in which the… …   Black's law dictionary

• commission of assize — /kamishan av asayz/ In English practice, a commission which formerly issued from the king, appointing certain persons as commissioners or judges of assize to hold the assizes in association with discreet knights during those years in which the… …   Black's law dictionary

• sit-down money — noun Welfare or social security payments made to aboriginal people, including unemployment benefits. 2005: A discussion paper being released today canvasses a number of proposals to transform the payments that have become known as sit down money …   Wiktionary

• sit in — Synonyms and related words: assemblee, assembly, assignation, at home, ball, be enfranchised, be implicated in, bear a hand, beef, bitch, boggle, boycott, brawl, call in question, caucus, challenge, chip in, colloquium, commission, committee,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• commission of delegates — In old English law, when any sentence was given in any ecclesiastical cause by the archbishop, this commission, under the great seal, was directed to certain persons, usually lords, bishops, and judges of the law, to sit and hear an appeal of the …   Black's law dictionary

• commission of delegates — In old English law, when any sentence was given in any ecclesiastical cause by the archbishop, this commission, under the great seal, was directed to certain persons, usually lords, bishops, and judges of the law, to sit and hear an appeal of the …   Black's law dictionary

• commission of assize — A commission or authority appointing the justices and serjeants named therein to sit as judges of assize in those years when the justices in eyre did not. See 3 Bl Comm 59 …   Ballentine's law dictionary

• sit on — {v.} 1. To be a member of (a jury, board, commission), etc. * /Mr. Brown sat on the jury at the trial./ 2. {informal} To prevent from starting or doing something; squelch. * /The teacher sat on Fred before he could get started with the long story …   Dictionary of American idioms