Sentence examples for a command to engage from inspiring English sources

Rupert was adamant that the King's letter (which he never showed to Newcastle) was a command to engage and defeat the enemy immediately.

Witnesses are told they are under a biblical command to engage in public preaching.

While the comics play on the peculiarities of code, they are as much about escaping the clear, orderly world of commands to engage a chaotic sphere known as real life, or perhaps merely adulthood.

The automatic transmission's downside is the wand-shaped console lever that can leave a driver red-faced with its tendency to ignore commands to engage drive or reverse from a stop.

In case they resorted to treason through open hostilities, Muslims were commanded to engage them in a fight.

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Greek court sources accused Vahan of treason for his disobedience to Heraclius' command not to engage in large-scale battle with Arabs.

A number of Labour MPs have defied their leader's instruction not to engage in discussions designed to find a plan that might command a majority.

Immediately, she allegedly initiated a "sexually and racially motived inappropriate and demeaning relationship" and commanded the student to engage in sexual relations with her daughter.

Their generals, among whom the veterans Fabius and Marcus Claudius Marcellus frequently held the most important commands, rarely ventured to engage Hannibal in the open and contented themselves with observing him or skirmishing against his detachments.

In the interviews, some of which were conducted in person and others by phone, I asked this key question among others: "What criteria do you weigh up in deciding to engage Command or the competition?" Notice that the question is open-ended.