Sentence examples for attempt to commander from inspiring English sources

So far, so nice, but really, who actually wants to whip out a PSP-sized controller in the club in an attempt to commander the crowd with something that looks better suited to playing Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Party Edition than the latest Workshop 12"?

For his next expedition, Mr. Swan said that he and Rupert Summerson, a British navigator, along with an American and Australian to be named later, would attempt to retrace Commander Peary's journey to the North Pole.

They recall his infamous attempt to crown himself commander of the faithful while prime minister in 1998, and point to his family's conservative background.

Although the Constitution sets out a mechanism by which Congress may remove the president — the impeachment process — any attempt to prosecute the commander in chief before he or she leaves office would, in the OLC's view, constitute an unworkable intrusion into the president's core responsibilities.

Sky reported the assassination attempt to the U.S. commander for the province, Colonel Bill Mayville.

His continued disputes with the military, including an attempt to have the commander of the Australian military forces found in contempt of Parliament, saw him lose respect among his colleagues and his later career was spent in comparative isolation.

His attempt to prove his commander-in-chief bona fides will reach a crescendo on Thursday, when he gives a speech in front of the USS Yorktown, a decommissioned war ship docked on the South Carolina coast.

It is yet another pathetic attempt to discredit our Commander-in-Chief and take away from his very real recent accomplishments like catching Osama bin Laden.

Chinua Achebe has declined the Nigerian government's attempt to name him a Commander of the Federal Republic.

Achebe has twice rejected the Nigerian government's attempt to name him a Commander of the Federal Republic – a national honour – first in 2004, and second in 2011.

In April, another airstrike in Kunar was thought to have killed at least 10 children after a foiled attempt to capture a Taliban commander led to a sustained gun battle between special forces troops and insurgents.