Sentence examples for secure a commission. from inspiring English sources

In late 1862, Ingraham finally launched a personal campaign to secure a commission.

Yet in several cases it was a City Opera reading that helped secure a commission.

Both then and on a subsequent visit, Biro failed to secure a commission.

The writer Muriel Spark helped Greacen secure a commission to write a study of Noël Coward in 1953.

Many collectors, for example, blindly accept the assessments of auction specialists, forgetting that their job is to move the property and secure a commission for their firm.

Temple was related to Oliver Cromwell via his kinsman Edward Whalley and was able to secure a commission for Whalley in his uncle's unit.

With this, the firm secured a commission for a new pier.

In 2000, he secured a commission from the Hearst Corporation, the publishing firm, to design its new headquarters, in Manhattan.

Taking advantage of ample government funding for the arts, she has remained in Scotland, doing printmaking, painting, and video projects -- even securing a commission to paint cathedral murals.

Five years after the end of Cold Feet, he remains a "green-light name", one of the very few actors in the industry capable of securing a commission merely on the strength of his moniker.

Having secured a commission from Vanity Fair to spend a year following a platoon of US troops in the heavily contested Korengal valley in north-eastern Afghanistan, with a unit "considered the tip of the spear for the American forces," Junger had the idea to film his time there from the beginning.