commissioning

But not Igor Olenicoff, who was caught commissioning forged sculptures to decorate his California properties.

So seriously that it went to the trouble of commissioning a survey, described here in a post on the Financial Times website.

This need for an artistic response led to Kent's commissioning of 12 plays by established and up-and-coming writers.

The 4th August 1916 saw the commissioning of a boat which was a revolution in submarine design.

We must go on volunteering, and commissioning the rusty militia-men and greasy demagogues who bring in the companies.

The presbytery felt that they were commissioning a servant of God to do a work that would cost his life.

The best that government has done for art in France is the commissioning of the great decorative paintings of Baudry and Puvis.

I first made my own bow, then drew forth the State paper commissioning me to call together 'this august body.'