Sentence examples for commissioned was from from inspiring English sources

One piece she commissioned was from war photographer Giles Duley who, while in Afghanistan in 2011, stepped on an explosive device which led to him losing both legs and one arm.

One of their earliest and most popular commissions was from Russell Maliphant, who created "Broken Fall" for the Boyz and Sylvie Guillem in 2003.

The other commissions are from artists Hurvin Anderson, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Ryan Gander, Mark Leckey, Heather Phillipson, Keith Piper and Katie Paterson.

As the literary editor of a middlebrow news magazine I'm finding ever more of the reviews I commission are from such presses.

Instead, this commission is from the outset not what Dyke intended it to be: it will hold its inquiry into what he describes as "the biggest problem the England team faces" without the top clubs which are responsible for it.

All three members of what came to be known as the Brundage Commission were from the Western Hemisphere and met in New Orleans in January 1949.

But the commission was hobbled from the start by inadequate financing and opposition from some state officials.

The commission was handicapped from its inception by political battles between liberals and conservatives.

In an interview today, the commission chairman, David Mason, said the commission was far from decided about what the new rules would say.

Furthermore, the commission was exempt from standard rules of legal procedure and evidence.

"For me, that commission was like manna from Heaven," he said.