Sentence examples for ceased to command from inspiring English sources

Unless you rate your friends by the relative majesty of their position in the world, Artschwager won't have ceased to command, as he deserves to, your affectionate regard.

When the emperor ceased to command respect around the 15th century, his court lost the confidence of his subjects and discontinued sittings after 1450.

So the presenters of the station's influential evening news show, Jorge Ramos and María Elena Salinas – icons in the Hispanic community long after news anchors ceased to command the same respect on English-language stations – issued an on-air call to Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to come to Miami and talk about what matters to the one in 10 voters who speak Spanish.

The moment we allow ourselves to be browbeaten out of having important discussions about issues that persist, we cease to command the requisite conviction to wield the pen — or to peck on a keyboard, but you get my drift.

He reverted to lieutenant on ceasing to command the battery on 22 January 1919.

Doubtless, many people do think in the way the theory supposes, feeling it anomalous, for example, when an occupation that is commonly accorded a higher status than another ceases to command a higher rate of pay.

On 30 September 1942, the LRDG ceased to be under command of the Eighth Army and came under direct command of GHQ Middle East.

Regarding this crisis, Freud noted that modern medicine studied in depth the nexus between the physical and the psychic but "in no case it ceased to present the psyche as commanded by, and dependent of, the corporal.

By April 1863, the numbers of the 21st Massachusetts had been so thinned by what Clark called the "cruel fate of war," that the regiment had virtually ceased to exist and Clark's command was only nominal.

Even when she was in her 50s and had ceased to appear regularly with the Opéra she commanded great respect in the company.

John Pierce began wearing multiple pairs of pants; he screamed for his dead mother; he lost his command of language; he ceased to recognize Charles as his only son, creating three fictional children in his place.