Sentence examples for commissioned to try from inspiring English sources

WHEN HOWARD DEAN BECAME CHAIRMAN of the Democratic National Committee in early 2005, Daughtry, who had been working as the chief of staff to Dean's predecessor, Terry McAuliffe, approached Dean with the newly arrived results of a poll she commissioned to try to sort out John Kerry's defeat in 2004.

He's standing on the deck of the Fugro Supporter, one of four ships that have been commissioned to try to find the missing Malaysian airliner.

Burnside quickly transported Vallandigham to Cincinnati and convened a military commission to try the Copperhead politician.

So it makes sense for the commission to try to curb the subsidies.

Earlier this month, officials floated the idea of reviving George Bush's military commissions to try terrorist suspects.

The court ruled that the Bush administration's initial plans for military commissions to try detainees violated the law.

The Postal Service's filing with the commission to try out Metro Post is timorous in tone and lists self-applied hobbles.

Nevertheless, Morgan Stanley is still talking with the commission to try to avoid such a suit, Mr. Outten said.

He had no alternative but to create a system of military commissions to try both American soldiers and enemy civilians.

I did, however, support the use of military commissions to try detainees, provided there were several reforms.

So there was no coordinated effort to do anything, which is why we created the park commission to try to develop the area and preserve what is here.