Sentence examples for book commanded from inspiring English sources

"I don't think I could write another," Mrs. Pilcher, whose latest book commanded an advance of more than $6 million, said in an interview.

When the book commanded an invitation for Kahn to organize an interactive installation for the 2012 dOCUMENTA, Kahn immediately saw the project including the Sahrawi women.

And if the book commands a seven-figure advance, as is widely expected, will it be worth it?

Ms. Long also shows how much better and tougher she is than these contrivances, which is why her big, fiery howl of a book commands interest despite its excess baggage.

For the most part, however, Drucker's books command attention neither for their stock of aphorisms nor for their mastery of technical computation.

My pesto research finds books commanding that it is important to use Genovese basil, Italian pignoli nuts, Ligurian olive oil, Parmigiano-Reggiano or pecorino cheese and good sea salt.

High-end corporate biographies, such as the low-cost airline founder G.R. Gopinath's "Simply Fly" or "The TCS Story... and Beyond" by the former Tata Consulting Services chief executive S. Ramadorai, and leadership strategy books command a significant slice of one end of the market, as do mass-market business self-help books.

Printouts and real books command focus in a way greater than an electronic device.

That is why this book commands and resonates so.

(Eric Schlosser, in his book "Command and Control," describes many instances in which such warnings were mistaken).

My book "Command and Control" explores how the systems devised to govern the use of nuclear weapons, like all complex technological systems, are inherently flawed.