So people whose behaviour somehow did not amount to actually breaking the law are now entrusted with the honour of making the law.
The reason this made sense is because so much of our communications and data are now entrusted to these internet giants.
Then, finally, there is the 1m square feet of public realm that comes with Crossrail: squares, plazas and pedestrianised streets designed mostly by the large engineering consultancies to whom our cities' open spaces are now entrusted.
Management of crown lands is now entrusted to the commissioners of crown lands, who have statutory powers with regard to leasing, selling, or exchanging estates.
Ben Stokes, whose one-day contributions have always been overshadowed by his Test performances, is now entrusted with those vital death overs and he is revelling in the responsibility.
Watching it all, impassively for the most part, was the man who has been consigned to City's past but who is now entrusted with ensuring Liverpool have a bright future after the departure to Barcelona of last season's 31-goal top scorer Luis Suarez.
Curiously, one main rationale for the new expansion is to fix all of the huge problems resulting from expansions past – ie the same people who screwed it up in the first place are now being entrusted to not only undue their mistakes but not to screw it up again.
"For I, the Eternal One hold your right hand, the One who says to you, Do not fear, I am your help" (Isaiah 41 13) - that is what our tradition teaches is now divinely entrusted to us, to extend to others.
Those whom Cunningham entrusted with his legacy are now groping to work out the Zen koan he left behind.
These were now to be entrusted to the new basilica.
There was the commission, 'let Britain show the rest of the world what it is now,' and it was entrusted to one man, Danny Boyle, to feel free to flesh it out.
