"Osama studied these files carefully before entrusting a particular task to anyone," Gunaratna writes.
'Commission' is here used in the meaning of a task entrusted to someone.
By design or not, News Corporation also gained currency among black and Hispanic leaders by helping orchestrate a campaign to increase the participation of minority viewers in the television ratings system, a task it entrusted to a consulting firm with strong ties to Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The tradition of bureaucratic control goes back to Japan's dash to catch up with the industrialized West, a task it entrusted to career officials drawn from top universities rather than lawmakers, who were seen as too short-sighted and corruptible.
And he has exploited a trusted brand to strengthen Boots's grip on filling prescriptions, a task few Britons entrust to supermarkets.
We use the word "commission" here to mean a task that is entrusted to someone.
We all want to save the rainforests, even if we might not entrust the task to an offshoot of the Rupert Murdoch empire.
Ryan Giggs is coming towards the end of his Old Trafford playing career but it would be a gamble of epic proportions to entrust the task of succeeding Ferguson to a managerial novice.
It follows that school development is a task for the school, and education policy makers are entrusted with the task of creating a framework that increases the chances of success in schools.
Never before had a European cathedral entrusted such a sacred task to an American company.
Tightened border controls, especially since Sept. 11, have made it more difficult and expensive for those in the United States illegally to return home to retrieve their children, forcing them to entrust the task to strangers, officials said.
