Sentence examples for a command the from inspiring English sources

As was customary Collier received a promotion, to master and commander on 3 September 1799, and a command, the 18-gun sloop, on 21 October.

"When I gave a command, the whole of Monrovia running to implement that command," Blahyi said.

"I believe that the structure was in place to carry out a command," the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, Bob Conrad, says.

At a command, the chandeliers lifted and a series of beauties wearing Mr. van Noten's clothes came striding down the table where waiters had just cleared the entree.

Mr. Balsillie said the redirector software can be set up to automatically and continuously send e-mail messages to a mobile device, instead of waiting to respond to a command the way many existing systems do.

As soon as he issues a command, the band springs into action, exploding into a frenzy of bright noise or collapsing into a ballad or swiftly scaling the peaks of an ascending chord pattern.

There's still a magnificent retro charm to these guess-at-a-command-the-game-actually-understands experiences, and for those already feeling nostalgic for the words "inventory" and "examine door", the XYZZY awards for interactive fiction have enough recommendations to keep you going through a month of rainy Sunday afternoons.

This was a command post, the night after the attacks on the World Trade Center.

In March 1815, he received a command in the 1st Corps, under the general command of Charles, Duke of Angoulême.

He held a command in the Army of Northern Virginia for the remainder of the war.

You may hear a command to the cabin crew along the lines of, "Doors to automatic.