Sentence examples for because of her command from inspiring English sources

She was appointed to run Belgium's first nursing school in 1907, chosen because of her command of French and her own training at the London Hospital.

And the one inescapable fact about Lewis is that she is not crazy: she has helped get people to rethink their notions of criminality because of her unshakable command of herself and her work.

Initially brought on board because her command of spreadsheets allows her to raise questions at critical junctures, Yella, the accountant, soon becomes a full partner in her employer's scheme to shake down financially imperiled start-ups, skim a few hundred thousand euros off each deal and start a new life.

"The only sartorial advice I was given was to wear something that would make me stand out in the crowd – hence the red coat". But the camera loves her: not because she burnishes her command of her subject with hotsy-totsiness as do other telegeneic academics (physicists Brian Cox and Helen Czerski, or Beard's friend, fellow classicist Bettany Hughes), but because of something more unusual.

Ray Harryhausen was a master of stop-motion because of his command of this time-bending imagination.

He won re-election in 2012 in no small part because of his command of social media and the power of the internet as a campaigning tool.

Gregory Johnsen, a Yemen expert at Princeton, agrees that Awlaki loomed larger in the West than in the Arabic-speaking world because of his command of English.

That is not just because of his command of detail and his wit, but because he commands the respect of friend and foe alike, who know that he is driven not just by legitimate political ambitions and ideas, but by a sense of duty that always leads him to try to make this country more prosperous, more solvent, more tolerant, more fair, and more free.

Because of her dominating style and commanding virtuosity, she was not generally cast opposite male dancers of whom there were few in her league but rather was placed in roles in which her "independent woman" persona was showcased in solo dance routines.

She was "extraordinarily animated by the spirit of socialism, who spoke to the people with a fervour of a missionary, and because of her sex and age, she commanded the fascination of the masses".

William Wainwright argues that, although God does not act because of his commands, it is still logical to say that God has reasons for his actions.