To Henry, a younger son of the Duke of Burgundy, he gave his daughter Teresa in marriage, with the sovereignty of the countries to the south of Galicia, commissioning him to enlarge his boundaries by the expulsion of the Moors.
Sometimes we find him commissioning a certain architect to make a plan for a chapel, or a door, or a window.
I first made my own bow, then drew forth the State paper commissioningme to call together 'this august body.
We must now pause, for we have brought the thread of the war down to the commissioning of the Alabama, and the reader will see with what forebodings, as well as hopes, we took the sea, in that ship.
I had not spoken to them in this formal way since I had addressed them on the memorable occasion of commissioning the ship.
I have done this up to the date of commissioning the Sumter.
The reader is now in a condition to accompany me, whilst I describe to him the commissioningof the Alabama.
In other words, this is one of the recognized modes of commissioning a ship of war, which has grown out of the convenience of the thing, and become a sort of naval common law of the sea, as indisputable as the written law itself.
It will now be necessary to take up the thread again, and bring it down to the commissioning of the Alabama.
If there was reason for Jesus' commissioning the apostles, was there not equal reason for the apostles commissioning others who should take their places?
In speaking of the Executive attribute, to wit, the appointing and commissioning officers, the term good behavior is used.
It may now be asked, if this case of the judges of the supreme and inferior courts be not an obvious exception out of the general Presidential discretion of appointing and commissioning all officers of the United States during pleasure?
He had also called for the enlistment and commissioning of a significant number of Negroes in the Regular Navy, and he wanted commanders indoctrinated in their racial responsibilities.
Young also recommended commissioning "additional citizen teams" to assist in some of the numerous and necessary field trips and wanted the committee to use Congressman Diggs and his files.
General Marshall agreed that racial parity could not be achieved at the expense of commissioning unqualified men, but he was equally adamant about providing equal opportunity for all qualified candidates, black and white.
The commissioning should be treated as a matter of course without any special publicity.
The Marine Corps had begun commissioning Negroes so recently that the development of a representative group of black officers in a system of open competition was of necessity a slow and arduous task.
Bureau of Naval Personnel, at the urging of its Special Programs Unit, agreed to follow Stevenson's suggestion and concentrate on the direct commissioning of Negroes.
Secretary Knox himself thought that the Navy would have to develop a considerable body of black sailors before it could even think about commissioning black officers.
In October the fitting out of a little navy and the commissioning of privateers were authorized.
Queen Anne wrote to them in March 1704, repealing their act erecting a court, but they held that her letter did not forbid the commissioning of privateers.
More effectual measures than the punishment of backward captains were the recall of Penn from the north, and the commissioning of fresh ships.
In March the Council of State was busy commissioning ships as fast as it could.
When commissioning Zano of Bayeux to buy him books in Italy, he had laid special stress on his desire to possess anything that had been written by this teacher.
So it seems that the plan of commissioning Gloucester to undertake the French war had gone some way.
The present writer's representations resulted in Mr. Brodrick, when Secretary for War, commissioning him to prepare a Handbook of the Laws and Customs of War on Land, which was issued to the Army by authority in 1904.
The commissioning of warships on the high seas is a different thing, which may possibly be regarded as an offence of a graver nature.
At the same time he made a similar provision for Navarre, which was likewise said to be swarming with heretics, by commissioning as inquisitors the Franciscan Guardian of Pamplona and the Dominican Pedro de Leodegaria.
Constance, in commissioningthe Observantine Franciscan, Giovanni da Capistrano, as a special inquisitor against the heretics of Mantua.
Theoretically, the first naval lord is responsible for the personnel of the fleet; but in practice he is necessarily concerned with the material also as soon as it is put into commission, and with the actual commissioning of it.
Before leaving for America he gave it to my nephew, Gottlieb Pigglewitch, commissioning him to hand it to me.
As a parting favour I begged him to take charge of Covenant for me, promising to pay a certain sum by the month for his keep, and commissioning him to retain the horse for his own use should I fail to claim him within the year.
He enclosed a draft for Major Ogilvy, commissioning him to use it in whatever way I should suggest.
Was this feat accomplished by prodigal expenditures in building vessels and other material of all kinds, and enlisting and commissioning a large number of officers and men?
I believe Misha wrote to you as though someone were commissioning me to go, but that's nonsense.
I am commissioning myself to go, on my own account.
Footnote 455: For commissioning Pompey with two lictors to restore Ptolemy.
We will see to commissioning the ship and to her secret orders.
When first she had talked of commissioning Le Monarque, milor had entrusted her with all necessary directions by which Captain Barre could most easily reach the Stuart prince and his friends.
It would only have bewildered the disciples if our Lord had explained to them the meaning and motive of the commissioning of the Twelve.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commissioning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
