Sentence examples for attempt to command from inspiring English sources

Even more daunting is the attempt to command the movie screen with such a show.

Prime ministers can use cabinets in an attempt to command, as Margaret Thatcher did, or to build consensus, as John Major did.

The Chinese leadership's crude attempt to command the Chinese stock markets to rally earlier this year, reminiscent of King Canute's confrontation with the incoming tide, is not encouraging.

Mr. Bush's advisers will attempt to command the agenda in the remaining days with an intense and grisly procession of television advertisements and attacks by Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on the issue.

The poem is used to conjure up Kitty's sardonic, plaintive, and finally angry attempts to command the attention of a husband whose mind is buried in the mysteries of the atom.

Titled "The Enchantress of Florence," it is set in Renaissance Florence and the court of the Mughal Empire as it tells "of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world," a Random House announcement said.

Though this program is still in its incredibly early stages, it suggests a definite widening of mindset for Airbnb which is attempting to command even more of the vacation experience of its users.

Patients with schizophrenia are known to attempt self-mutilation due to command hallucination, catatonic excitement, or associated depression [ 24].

To remind voters of Mr Buhari's disastrous attempt to impose command economics on Nigeria, one campaign cartoon shows a long queue outside an empty shop marked "essential commodities", with a soldier whipping one of the people waiting in line.

The granular images of him struggling to command a microphone while attempting to embody Orwell's dystopia were a masterclass in incongruity.

Corps commander Custine was then called up to command the Army of the North but, before leaving his command, he attempted a last daunting move against the Habsburg army.