1.   ...its policy of commissioning original work.

2.   Although the museum commissioned the work, that does not necessarily mean that it is destined to be part of the permanent collection.

3.   By this time, though, imperial attention had also turned to commissioning contemporary work.

4.   Eisner has commissioned work by virtually every notable U.S. architect and has some of biggest thinkers in technology tethered to Imagineering, the corporate skunkworks.

5.   Festivals are also commissioning work and offering residencies that include precious free rehearsal time.

6.   Fortunately for Sofka Zinovieff, the owner of Faringdon who commissioned the work, the sculpture was distinguished by the prodigious size of its male organ.

7.   If Haimes has not commissioned much experimental work, he has never worried about convention on the business side of the theater.

8.   In early August, the Forum mysteriously decommissioned Gartner, its chairman telling the Des Moines Register that it had been a mistake to commission the work.

9.   Liebermann started the music only after the work was commissioned by the Opera de Monte-Carlo.

10.   Rather, Ms. Kline and Helaine Posner, an independent curator who collaborated on the nomination, essentially suggested that the panel commission a work by Ms. Hamilton.