Sentence examples for foreign commissions from inspiring English sources

The embassy in New Delhi, with its lacy grilles and an inner water garden, fountains, and islands of plantings, was well received and led to many foreign commissions.

He started his own practice in 1954 with two foreign commissions: the Venice pavilion and the Norwegian pavilion for the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.

Verdi felt that both operas with foreign commissions required revision for Italian theatres; this he accomplished for Forza in 1869 and Don Carlo (as it is now usually called) in 1884 and 1887.

In opera the big money came from foreign commissions, and in the same year his next work, La forza del destino (The Force of Destiny), was produced at St . Petersburg

Zumthor, who employs a staff of about 30, has accepted a small number of foreign commissions in recent years, including a temporary pavilion built at the Serpentine Gallery in London two summers ago, but has turned down many more.

But Wilkinson makes us understand how Koslov, driven by ambition into accepting a foreign commission from a Russian oligarch, transfers his own sense of guilt into an unassuageable detestation of the man he blames for his family's death.

Mr. Venturi is among the most celebrated architects of our age; he won the Pritzker Prize last year, and three months later saw the completion of his addition to the National Gallery in London, perhaps the most prestigious foreign commission any American architect has won.

On her final foreign commission Belfast joined a number of exercises in the Far East, and in December 1961 she provided the British guard of honour at Tanganyika's independence ceremony in Dar-es-Salaam.

Hillary Clinton has also been the biggest promoter of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which will ship millions more of our jobs overseas - and give up Congressional power to an international foreign commission.

In addition, section 101 5) defines "commodity broker" to mean a futures commission merchant, foreign futures commission merchant, clearing organization, leverage transaction merchant, or commodity options dealer, with respect to which there is a customer.

Natalegawa met the foreign affairs commission, Commission One, in parliament on Thursday.