Priced $179.99, it sits in your home, plugged into the wall, awaiting commands.
One of three poised for action, it lurks in the gloom, awaiting a command – robots, after all, don't need the lights on.
When a vulnerable machine is discovered, it is infected with malware that lies there undetected, awaiting the command to start pinging the site that has been chosen for an attack.
Rainilaiarivony successfully maintained authority over the palace guards anxiously awaiting the command from either faction to slaughter the other.
You are reaching inward and unfurling the red carpet for your waltz, and not the flapping tongue as much as the King Solomon variety floating gently out into your new reality, awaiting your command.
The car's head unit (the in-car touch screen tablet) awaits your command.
"Mappers" have supplied the network blueprints for the target computers; "crackers" have deciphered passwords and breached operating systems; telecommunications have been compromised; and vans, ferrying men with HERF (high energy radio frequency) guns, which are harmless to people, but fry the innards of computers, await the command to fire.
"Shiiba Linu" features another dog in a field of dense yellow-green grass; it sits between a beautifully painted electric keyboard and a kitten's mangled carcass, as if awaiting its next command.
I just have to ask Alexa, or Siri, or one of the other digital assistants developed by Silicon Valley firms, who await the commands and manage the affairs of their human bosses.
"Let the season begin!" he said, as if spring awaited only his command to arrive.
We Americans harbor a quaint belief that a new president takes charge of a government that eagerly awaits his next command.
