Sentence examples for entrust the affairs from inspiring English sources

Of his own volition he decided to entrust the affairs of the empire to younger men and returned first to Nicomedia, then to the neighbourhood of Salonae, on the edge of the Adriatic, where he had a magnificent palace built (the modern town of Split, Croatia, occupies the site of its ruins).

It was to Kamatari, therefore, that a grateful prince, who consequently was able to ascend the throne as the emperor Tenji, entrusted the affairs of government.

In 1191, whilst King Richard I was in Palestine, his brother John summoned a council of bishops to St Paul's to denounce William de Longchamp, Bishop of Ely to whom Richard had entrusted the affairs of government for treason.

"The republican principle demands that the deliberate sense of the community should govern the conduct of those to whom they entrust the management of their affairs," Alexander Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 71 in 1788.

As he put it in Conscience of a Conservative--in italics: "we entrust the conduct of our affairs to men who understand that their first duty as public officials is to divest themselves of the power they have been given".

Citing cases of embezzlement by those entrusted with the affairs of elderly and disabled people, the chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court called on Wednesday for citizen volunteers to help weed out fraud in the state's legal guardianship program.

Qarquya was set free and again entrusted with the affairs of state until his death a few years later, while Bakjur was given the governorship of Homs.

"Allowing a central authority... to decide on how every institution especially universities where specialization is at the highest level should conduct its affairs means to entrust the entire country to the supposed infallibility of a single individual in a world where economy and technology advance at an immense pace," it reads.

Can they entrust the euro to a compromise choice?

"Those who entrust their affairs to a woman," he is believed to have said, "will never know prosperity".

He entrusted the dominion of night to the moon god.