Sentence examples for began to command from inspiring English sources

Capturing such Los Angeles sites as Hollywood Boulevard, Venice Beach, the Los Angeles International Airport, and the Ivar Theater, a strip club, began to command his attention.

And like those other spirits, it began to command staggering prices in the 1990's: $100 -- or more -- for an artfully made bottle.

He claims that he never stole from blacks, preferring to operate as a sort of freelance Robin Hood, redistributing white wealth, much as he sought to do when he began to command power in the music business.

[cartoon id= aa144"] He claims that he never stole from blacks, preferring to operate as a sort of freelance Robin Hood, redistributing white wealth, much as he sought to do when he began to command power in the music business.

With his "polyglot vocabulary," Mr. Gutman goes on, Mozart gradually began to command "a style deceptively simple on the surface but filled with intricacies and elegances, a style of cultured grace that did not exclude a distilled sensuality so complex, penetrating and compelling as to ennoble as it seduces".

In 1970, as the general appeal of the St Ives group faded, the Waddington Galleries dropped Frost; and even as the hard times receded and his canvases began to command five-figure sums, it was the work of the 1950s that was most in demand.

Mr. Foote returned to New York in 1950, just as television was beginning to command America's attention and producers like Fred Coe were recruiting writers to work for it.

Another timing element had begun to command his attention: "I was nearing the end of my 20s and I did start to feel the itch, so I initiated the conversation," he said.

The potential danger to human health from the millions of barrels of oil gushing into the Gulf for the last two months is only just beginning to command public attention.

European budgets are insufficient to finance a full range of weapons programmes, and some American technology is too good not to buy.The third way, which is now beginning to command a consensus, is for the European industry to consolidate, but to remain open to transatlantic alliances.

If Charnley may have begun to appreciate a little of what Craig Bellamy felt when, more than a decade ago, Carver stood up to him over a spot of selfish car parking, the Tynesider's sometimes spiky ability to fight his corner was reputedly beginning to command Ashley's slightly amused admiration.