1.   A capacity for burying problems made royal commissions and the like instantly attractive to politicians besieged by one knotty issue or another.

2.   Everyone agrees that it is the report, and that there is no point in having a royal commission after Woolf.

3.   However, he opposed a royal commission on the legalisation of drugs, the formal policy of the Liberal Democrats.

4.   Never given office by the Liberals, he served as a back-bencher on several royal commissions and committees.

5.   Once established, a royal commission was out of political control.

6.   To begin with, Margaret Thatcher dispensed with royal commissions.

7.   A high-level investigatory panel known as a royal commission is investigating the failure of HIH Ltd., the second-largest insurer in the country.

8.   Hoping to win his acerbic master a royal commission, Tree-ear makes a hazardous journey to the royal palace.

9.   Spectacular royal commissions are on display nearby.

10.   The Canadian government is now studying a royal commission recommendation that would give natives the right to administer their own complete criminal justice system.