Sentence examples for capacity to command from inspiring English sources

But that virtue, that capacity to command the spirits of his team-mates, is not readily tameable.

Civilian leaders, saying they must call the shots, mistrust the rebel soldiers, especially those bearing the rank of colonel, who question the civilians' capacity to command.

Those who overturned the election may have felt that Milice deserved a second chance as an officer, or that McGuire's alcohol problem raised concerns about his capacity to command.

It is impossible, I think, to underestimate the impact of this sort of thing on a class of people who had grown up taking servants for granted, and whose sense of entitlement and purpose was intimately bound up with their capacity to command.

The decision was made that her testimony would give Irving, conducting his own case, the opportunity to switch the focus of the trial from what it should properly be about – the examination of how his antisemitism infected his honesty – to an attack on something entirely irrelevant: the reliability in the witness box of Lipstadt's instant capacity to command every scattergun detail of history.

However, it matters a lot whether a state has the capacity to command loyalty, maintain essential elements of sovereignty, a monopoly over the legitimate use of force and the ability to garner enough resources that are necessary to rule (Holsti 1996).

Pirate parents also have the capacity to assume command when needed.

As the youngest ministry of the 25 in the State Council (elevated from state agency status only in 2008), with a meagre staff of 300 (the US EPA has more than 17,000), the MEP presently has little real capacity to take command of the nation's environmental challenges.

The South lacked sufficient soldiers, trained officers to command them, naval and civilian ships, manufacturing capacity to make ships and many weapons, and powder for guns and cannon.

A credible and therefore qualified candidate will be able to command the trust of survivors by having the capacity to relate to them on a personal level.

where cmd refers to command.