Sentence examples for a huge commission from inspiring English sources

At the top is Rembrandt's grandest painting, The Night Watch, a huge commission from a city militia.

A huge commission, such as the immense "Madonna of the Rose Garlands" of 1506 that now hangs, much restored, in Prague, could tie him up for months.

A bitter lawsuit in which the gallery owner Larry Gagosian was accused of selling a prominent collector's Roy Lichtenstein painting without her permission and making a huge commission on the deal has been settled.

He was preparing for a huge commission: Archer Milton Huntington, a railroad heir in New York, had requested murals for an octagonal gallery at his new museum, the Hispanic Society of America on Broadway at 155th Street in Washington Heights.

Travel journalism is hard work and the pay isn't always great either: Forget fantasies of being sent round the world on an assignment with a huge commission, all expenses paid, and having endless days lolling on the beach or people-watching in cafes.

And it's only an information site– they have to process bookings through a third party that takes a huge commission.

I am confident that I can sell my home, myself, without giving away that huge commission to a real estate agent.

Whether weaving a throw on a traditional loom or knitting a huge architectural commission in black metallic thread, Ms. Takeda experiments with color, texture and technique.

Before they set up the company five years ago, Drumm was working as an architect on huge commissions (he says his last project, a private hospital, "stripped years off my life"), and Hoy was at a design company making tiny cereal packet toys.

First of all, you latch onto a huge jet, commissioned to destroy the planet (thus saving mankind from itself, à la I, Robot) by spreading biological weapons, that launches from a huge tanker.

Then, life insurance companies and independent financial advisers lured more than a million customers away from employer-sponsored pension plans into inferior private plans, earning huge commissions for the advisers.