Sentence examples for a direct command from inspiring English sources

A shift in facial expression, an expansive posture, or a different negotiating strategy can be just as effective as a direct command, a wagging finger, or other aggressive behavior, she says.

It mostly happened when I asked questions, rather than giving a direct command.

Example 23a represents deontic modality in its strictest, i.e. in the performative sense; a direct command is issued from a speaker to an addressee.

With deontic 必 bì, a direct command is issued to an addressee; but in 24, the obligation rather refers to the event represented by 免 miǎn 'avoid' than to the state of thinking represented by sī 思.56 But in this example, an adverbial analysis of 必 bì expressing the confidence of the speaker that the proposition will be true under the conditions specified in the protasis cannot be excluded.

So when Nick gave me a direct command, I acquiesced.

Based at Campbell Barracks, in Swanbourne, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, the regiment is a direct command unit of the Special Operations Command.

The Balinese have a horror for direct command and promptly lie down and go to sleep.

But Shackleton, despite shipwreck and starvation, never lost a man under his direct command.

Under Lee's direct command, a botched engagement at Cheat Mountain.

"The supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization anization — who is an American officer and probably always will be — should have direct command over a NATO nuclear force, trained, ready and equipped on European soil.

British doctrine at the time retained heavy machine guns under the direct command of a corps or division, rather than as an organic part of subordinate formations.