Sentence examples for commissioned in which from inspiring English sources

There were some copies of manuscripts ("Notes on Oedipus," "Notes on the King Must Die"), given me by Roy Sargeant, a theatre director who was making plans to stage a play he'd commissioned, in which the shades of Renault and Alexander meet in the Underworld.

"And now 'diversity' officials in the ABC are actually trying to stifle diversity by demanding the ABC not screen a documentary it commissioned in which Aboriginal MP Linda Burney and I politely debate the government's plan to change our constitution to divide us by race.

The Office of Advocacy of the Small Business Administration SBAA) is publicly -- albeit meekly -- tiptoeing away from a now-infamous report that it commissioned, in which economists Nicole Crain and Mark Crain purported to find that federal regulations cost the economy $1.75 trillion in 2008.

It's been ten years, almost to the day, since I returned from Afghanistan with the "Report" Jacques Chirac, Lionel Jospin and Hubert Védrine had commissioned, in which I described the possible contribution of France to the political, civic, cultural and military reconstruction of this country ruined by decades of dictatorship, war, and massacres.

It is hard to see how this can be more sober than the last review, commissioned in 2010, which produced a 485-page report in September last year.

Batten said he stood by a "charter of Muslim understanding", commissioned in 2006, which calls on Muslims to sign a declaration rejecting violence.

The MPAA cited a Millward Brown study that it commissioned in 2013, which found that search engines played a role in a fifth of all sessions leading to access of infringing sites and materials.

Two further 7,000 ton 14 knot ships were commissioned in 1952, which meant that the Manchester Division, veteran of both wars, could be sold for scrapping after a record 35 years service with the line.

In 2008 it commissioned Seizure, in which artist Roger Hiorns poured 75,000 litres of copper sulphate into an empty flat in a south London estate also due for demolition, turning it into a blue crystal cave.

Each is not without its high points, but collectively the stories can't help but feel a bit bloodless, like commissioned projects in which the prose is subordinate to theme.

Three specially commissioned stories in which writers from around the world explore the idea of getting away from it all.