Sentence examples for act of commanding from inspiring English sources

For example, a sign that says "Whites Only" contributes to the social subordination of non-whites by performing the act of commanding racial segregation.

Again, those interested in military command-and-control often note the similarity of Peircean scientific method to the classic OODA loop ("observe, orient, decide, act") of command-and-control-theory.

Levison's lawyers argue that the order for Lavabit to turn over its master keys "is a truly dramatic act," akin to "commanding the City of Richmond to give the police a key to every house within the city limits" in search of one man.

If he didn't quite mine the depths of Falstaff's damp, wounded pride after he has climbed out of the Thames at the beginning of the third act, he commanded the stage throughout with balletic grace.

The old woman rewards Shiraz's stepsister, who acts on command and out of self-interest, obeying the old woman's commands to the letter, in kind.

He agrees that natural law, if it is genuine "law", requires an act of imperium, a command by the legislator expressing his will.

For Iago's contemptuous "Ecco il leone" ("Behold the lion"), the curtain line of Act III, he commanded the snarling trill Verdi asks for.

Both these cities acted as fortresses commanding the routes through the mountains to the mineral and other wealth of Anatolia.

Make sure she only acts on command and when you wake up, make sure she waits calmly for your command before getting out of bed.

In France, he observed what he thought was a gross act of disciplinary excess by Commanding General John J. Pershing.

Adebolajo had claimed his act of butchery was a military strike commanded by God and that he was a soldier of Allah.