Sentence examples for secured a commission from inspiring English sources
In 2000, he secured a commission from the Hearst Corporation, the publishing firm, to design its new headquarters, in Manhattan.
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.
He secured a commission to design the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, Japan; when the building was undamaged following the 1923 earthquake, Wright's reputation was restored.
In London, by means which are not documented, Handel secured a commission to write an Italian opera for the Queen's Theatre in the Haymarket (it became the "King's Theatre" after King George I's accession in 1714).
Newly promoted Brigadier General Samuel Holden Parsons a lawyer from Connecticut who had recently secured a commission in the Continental Army, and Colonel Samuel Atlee in command of the First Regiment of Pennsylvania Musketry - a veteran of the French and Indian War - were stationed further north on the Gowanus Road.
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.
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.
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.
On his first day of freedom he secured a £300 commission from the Guardian and soon became a go-to TV talking head whenever a prison story was pulled into the news cycle.
