1.   A commission was created to develop statewide standards for schools by next year.

2.   Futures commissions are often created by communities that have experienced some form of trauma, such as economic collapse.

3.   North Carolina, in fact, has created a commission to prevent the staging of the bloody brawls.

4.   Sixteen standing commissions were also created to advise on domestic and foreign affairs.

5.   They also agreed to create a commission of experts to tackle problems arising from the different trade policies adopted by Latin American and EC countries.

6.   Already, a House committee has approved legislation to create a commission for recommending which parks ought to be sold or transferred to the states.

7.   An effort this fall by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee to create a commission was rebuffed.

8.   Among the propositions was a Commmunist-sponsored bill to create a commission to investigate officials responsible for the hundreds of civilian deaths in Chechnya.

9.   An amendment creating a commission to monitor human rights in China won half a dozen Republicans and many more Democrats.

10.   And earlier this month state Senator Susan Tucker, an Andover Democrat, filed legislation that would create a commission to propose improvements to the agency.