Entrusted

Darwin entrusted the education of his four younger sons to carefully chosen Anglican clergy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And it is primarily about architects, a group Mr. Cohen describes as "entrusted with a very wide range of tasks that made them far more than enlisted citizens." ❋ Julie V. Iovine (2011)

As Mrs. Brown passed this latter gentleman in silence, we could not help smiling -- hoping she might have to think as well of his powers as he did himself, and that all titles entrusted to his care might be safely delivered; for we knew Mrs. Bramston would not be called ❋ John Leighton (1867)

Even his activity, in a calling entrusted to him for the promotion of the kingdom of God, may likewise so absorb him as to obscure the consciousness that he has here no abiding home, that his native country is in Heaven. ❋ 1789-1850 (1853)

The girl was then "entrusted" to Ms. Minetti, because efforts to place the girl with social services were "fruitless," police said. ❋ Stacy Meichtry (2010)

The statement also said a meeting of the government's council of ministers had "entrusted" the running of the country to Kabila's son, Major-General Joseph Kabila. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The old captain to whose care we are "entrusted" is in civilian life a patent lawyer in London. ❋ Rudel, Hans-Ulrich (1973)

They had been "entrusted" to Joseph (v. 4), and Joseph took all such commissions very seriously. ❋ 1892-1972 (1942)

No wonder, then, that an air of peculiar respectability attached itself to the "wheel" itself which revolved in a corner of the barroom night after night, whirling into opulence or penury, such as entrusted their fortunes to its revolutions. ❋ Anna Fuller (1884)

They have no idea what those who have been 'entrusted' with managing our money supply have done to us. ❋ Unknown (2009)

With that, England's required run-rate (closing in on nine before Kallis 'entrusted' himself with the ball) fell to a smidgeon over seven, and the tables were well and truly turned. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I became a visiting scholar in Japan, Brazil, Paraguay, Australia, and many other places that enabled me to meet elders from the cultures I was visioning, and I often became entrusted with their most sacred healing traditions or spiritual lineages. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

Old French had a number of words using variations of related Latin concepts of “believing” or “trusting,” and among those that it passed on to English was credit, from the Latin crēditum, “a thing lent” or “a thing entrusted to another.” ❋ Leslie Dunton-Downer (2010)

I lived with them as she taught me what she knew, and in a ceremony under the guardianship of Shinto priests, I was finally entrusted to carry on her tradition. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

When Ikuko Osumi entrusted me to carry on her tradition, I thought of how the Bushmen would tease me about it. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

Tall tunnels of thin glass entrusted to guard the dancing light inside them. ❋ Jack Canfield (2011)

We have been entrusted with a sacred responsibility, and it is our duty to take those actions we feel are necessary to preserve order, and to ensure the safety of those to whom we have pledged our service. ❋ Dayton Ward (2011)

To me, the implicit assumption underneath the outrage is: "An elected official entrusted by the people to serve and lead is at risk of doing so effectively and with trust by virtue of making these type of decisions." ❋ Ph.D. Kevin J. Fleming (2011)