6 sentences with 'commissioned'
Example sentences and phrases with the word commissioned and other words derived from it.
• « By the time he united the Mongols under his rule, he had already overcome numerous setbacks and betrayals, described years later in an important history commissioned by the Mongol rulers, the Secret History of the Mongols. »
• « Almost from the beginning of his tenure, Pope Paul III was on the offensive: he commissioned a report in 1536 to assess the possibility and necessity of reform, which concluded that there were numerous abuses within the Church that needed to be corrected (e.g., the lack of education of the clergy, the practice of drawing revenue from parishes that the bishops never visited, etc.), but there was no change in doctrine. »
• « In 1901, the University of Vienna commissioned the artist Gustav Klimt to create paintings celebrating the three great branches of traditional academic scholarship: philosophy, medicine and law. »
• « According to the book The Cigarette Papers, co-authored by Glantz, a confidential study commissioned by the Tobacco Institute identified passive smokers as the industry's Achilles heel. »
• « Shortly after San MartÃn's arrival, the ruling Triumvirate commissioned him to organise a cavalry squadron to defend the Buenos Aires coast from possible attacks by troops from Montevideo. Thus the mounted grenadiers were born, trained by their creator with the best discipline and military training. »
• « As some ships of the Montevideo squadron threatened the inhabitants of the shores of the Paraná River, Manuel Belgrano was commissioned to set up defences there. For this purpose, two batteries were built in Rosario de Santa Fe, which Belgrano named Libertad and Independencia. »