Sentence examples for entrusted from inspiring English sources

"entrusted" is an appropriate and commonly used word in written English
You can use it when you want to express that somebody has been given a responsibility or duty to take care of something. For example: "My parents entrusted me with the care of my younger brother while they were away."

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entrusted

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Past of entrust

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In 2013 Fairfax Media entrusted a digitising business called Rogers Photo Archive in Little Rock, Arkansas, with millions of newspaper photographic prints and negatives dating back as far as the 19th century – from the Sydney Morning Herald, the Sun-Herald, the Australian Financial Review, the Age in Melbourne and 72 New Zealand newspapers.

We need to apply the principle of trust in bailment, or whatever the local legal vocabulary is, to all that data we have entrusted to other people.

In both these cases, ordinary people used technologies of connection to help them steer their own affairs, not merely managing complex domains to a minimal threshold of competence, but outperforming the official bodies formally entrusted with their stewardship.

The White House did not reply with specificity to calls and emails on why the woman who had, for the duration of Obama's presidency, been entrusted with beautifying the nation's most famous address was apparently not trusted to leave the premises on her own.

Instead faceless junior ministers have been entrusted with the job.

Partly this has stemmed from the creation of HS2 Ltd, a civil service structure entrusted with the political task of lending an ear and acting on people's concerns.

But we have to be concerned when faced with those entrusted with the health of the nation who take a position on a vital part of women's healthcare that flies in the face of the current medical and scientific consensus in the UK, and indeed public opinion.

It is difficult to think of more serious possible misconduct by police officers, who are entrusted with the vitally important and habitually dangerous job of keeping people safe and protecting society from lawbreaking.

In one instance, the task of finding documents about the distribution of weapons to police for use against protesters was entrusted to interior ministry officials who had helped prepare those very documents in the first place.

Bachmann, who pulled out of the race to become nominee in January after only 5% of Republicans in Iowa entrusted her with their vote, led the businessman Jim Graves by 3,256 votes, with 98.2% of precincts reporting, according to unofficial state elections returns.

Murdoch made him editor of the Times in 2002 and entrusted him with the role of managing editor of the Wall Street Journal after the buyout of Dow Jones.

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