Sentence examples for commission to lay from inspiring English sources

In 1897, the sugar manufacturer Henry Havemeyer gave the neophyte a dream commission, to lay out an entire waterfront summer community oriented around artificial canals in Islip, N.Y.

In 1885, Price was commissioned to lay out Tuxedo Park.

The opinion appears to have been commissioned to lay the legal groundwork for the so-called Lieberman plan – or "populated-area exchange plan" – which he first proposed in 2004.

At a conference in England, Doshi met Le Corbusier, the modernist wizard who had been commissioned to lay out the new Indian city of Chandigarh, and to design several of its buildings.

The French landscape architect André Le Nôtre was commissioned to lay out the park and grounds in the 1660s, and further alterations were made during the late 18th century under Henry Holland.

Speer Jr's commission was to lay out a master plan for the access to the Olympic complex in Beijing.

Supposing the News Corp jet could be parked in one place for long enough to facilitate sittings, you could commission a painter to lay the tycoon on a canvas to hang alongside the oils of Beaverbrook, Hearst and other media tycoons from the time when immortality in a gilt frame above the fireplace was as much a badge of power as a Rolls.

By now recognized as the foremost American landscape designer of his day, Downing was commissioned in 1851 to lay out the grounds for the Capitol, the White House, and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Downing's plans for this project had to be carried out by his successors, however, because he drowned in a steamboat accident in the vicinity of New York Harbour.

In 1925 he served as president of two commissions on constitutional reform, thus helping to lay the foundations of the Fascist corporate state.

The political scientist William Galston believes that President Obama should use his State of the Union address to lay out a case for the commission's plan.

In many countries civil service commissions were set up to ensure impartiality in selection procedures and to lay down broad principles for personnel management in the civil service.