Sentence examples for commissioned himself from inspiring English sources

Whenever he redesigned a magazine, he commissioned himself to do some illustrations.

His fate will depend on the results of an independent inquiry he commissioned himself by Morgan Lewis, a law firm.

Before the arrival of the FF, this was the sort of vehicle that the Sultan of Brunei would have commissioned for himself, at great expense.

And in the first room of the museum is a painting, which Mr. Gebre Yesus recently commissioned, of himself standing in a courtroom before the emperor.

In particular, photographs were circulated before the trial began of four life-sized statues that Prince Jefri had commissioned of himself and his fiancee locked in various acts of passion.

In his notorious political essay for the New Statesman last month (commissioned by himself, as guest editor for a week), Brand quoted the comedian Billy Connolly, who warned that: "The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever being one".

Left unsaid: Mr. Ryan served on that commission himself, and his opposition to its final proposals helped seal its fate.

But in the nearly unanimous vote on Wednesday, the lower house of Parliament rejected Mr. Karzai's effort to control all the appointments to the commission himself and instead ordered that the watchdog group be reinstated to its prior composition.

Mr. Karzai's move to appoint the election complaint commission himself, removing the requirement that it have United Nations-appointed members, would reduce international oversight of future elections, and could undermine their credibility in the eyes of Afghans as well as foreign countries.

Davies was this week appearing before the ethics commission himself after agreeing to step down days before Christmas following the emergence of an email that showed he appeared to be liaising with Papa Massata Diack over whether to suppress news of sanctioned Russian athletes before the 2013 Moscow world championships.

Early in the process Mr. Gergiev himself commissioned a billowing glass design from the California architect Eric Owen Moss.