Sentence examples for acting on command from inspiring English sources

He has become one of Mr. Corzine's most visible surrogates, acting on command as a rhetorical wrecking ball for his less garrulous Senate colleague.

B4 The Path of Al Qaeda REBEL LEADER'S DEATH -- Investigators piecing together the assassination of Ahmed Shah Massoud, the Afghan rebel leader, say they believe the plot was carried out by members of an Al Qaeda cell based in Europe and acting on command from Osama bin Laden.

An S.S. man who shot hundreds of Jews in the head or gassed thousands with Zyklon B was, by this account, not committing murder so long as he was acting on commands from above.

Therefore, Fitch's ships, acting on a command from Nimitz, rendezvoused with TF 17 north of New Caledonia on 1 May, after refueling from the tanker on 25 April to thwart the Japanese offensive.

The lower level scheme controls the fuel cell acting on the compressor command and on the back pressure valves of anode and cathode.

But I hate acting cheerful on command and stuffing myself with mediocre sugar cookies.

In fact, C.I.A. officials were poised to flee the country when several Iranian officers recruited by the agency, acting on their own, took command of a pro-shah demonstration in Tehran and seized the government.

John provides numerous exempla of justified tyrannicide where the tyrant's harm is not as great as Julian's and where the assassin is not acting on an explicit divine command.

This paper focuses on a novel concept of haptic cueing for an airborne obstacle avoidance task; the novel cueing algorithm was designed in order to appear "natural" to the operator, and to improve the human-machine interface without directly acting on the actual aircraft commands.

Actions are commands acting on card hardware.

Rudy postcards go for $1 apiece, Rudy posters for $10, and Rudy originals, except for the hundred or so Mr. Lederman says were confiscated by the Police Department acting on orders from his nemesis, command up to $1,000.