Sentence examples for a fair command from inspiring English sources

He has a fair command of the language, unlike some deportees who arrived with no knowledge of Khmer.

He had a fair command of English, provided the other party to the conversation didn't talk too fast.

Li Shanlin, a dapper 80-year-old professor of mathematics and physics in English tweeds and with a fair command of English, will tell the story of his restaurant with minimal prompting.

This week her colleagues in the four-party cabinet, which rarely deals with education, cautiously backed her idea that all Swiss children should have a fair command of three languages, including two of the country's own.But the language war has barely begun.

Despite having low keyboarding skills in English, they also have a fair command of knowledge and practice of general Web 2.0 tools for daily life, but not for educational purposes.

I have noticed that he has a fair command of most of what a 9-year-old needs to use a computer.

That night, her mother, who'd grown up in the next town over, who'd dreamed of exotic travel only to live the inverted version — the older European man, handsomely gaunt, haunted, roaring up on his motorcycle at a county fair — commanded Mandy to explore new reading topics.

That, too, is a view that throughout Western Europe seems to command a fair degree of sympathy.

They'd much rather invest in an anti-arthritis drug that well-insured Americans will take every day than a vaccine that may never command a fair price.

Their work is almost invisible here, though it commands a fair amount of attention in the flourishing and contentious cinephile wing of the blogosphere.

Since then the domain has commanded a fair fetching price.