Sentence examples for ability to command the from inspiring English sources

The events of the past week increase the doubts about her ability to command the military.

David Cameron told Brown at prime minister's question time that his "ability to command the cabinet has simply disappeared".

Without the tax, Mr. Buffett warned, "you pass down the ability to command the resources of the nation based on heredity rather than merit".

His ability to command the lower half of the strike zone, and an ability to incorporate those off-speed pitches, were the most encouraging signs of the night.

With Foot, Enoch Powell and a handful of others, he had the ability to command the house's attention, especially when he spoke of matters relating to its own rights and privileges.

However, Lord O'Donnell, the former cabinet secretary who was intimately involved in the 2010 negotiations, said the key constitutional requirement for a prime minister is simply the ability to command the confidence of the House of Commons.

The job description demanded "visionary and charismatic leadership", the ability to "command respect and loyalty", the confidence to take risks and – oh yes – "a knowledge and love of the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries".

Some of the guests were apparently lured to the restaurant by the false assurance that Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren would be present, itself a sad indictment of the poverty both of the Conservatives' cultural imagination and of their ability to command attention among the "glitterati".

Although the latter's rivalry with Patton was well known, Montgomery appears to have admired Patton's ability to command troops in the field, if not his strategic judgment.

"Chris even in his darkest moments had a kind of gallows humor, and the ability to command a room by telling stories on the spot that would have the structure and payoff of the best script," said the screenwriter Tim Talbott, a friend whose 1970's drama "The Stanford Prison Experiment" McQuarrie would later try to help get off the ground.

The statutory powers given to the Ombudsman - the ability to command co-operation of lawyers and remedies including compensation of up £30,000 – have proved key to avoiding the sorts of impasses which bedevilled the previous arrangements.