Sentence examples for certain of commanding from inspiring English sources

He cannot do so, as he is not certain of commanding a majority in the Commons for the big gesture: the immediate allure of the military strike.

John Mickel from the Queensland University of Technology said it appeared Labor was certain of commanding a majority in parliament with 44 seats plus the support of the independent Peter Wellington.

She is certain to command the attention of the Japanese government, media and public in a way few other people could.

Imagine, though, that a certain created rational being, Mary, inhabits a linguistic community in which there is no practice of commanding.

Since video is very time sensitive, allowing only a certain number of command lines to be performed between frames, speed was an important factor in our game.

Raz's conception of authority depends for its cogency on the thought that as long as the subject does better by reason overall by obeying certain classes of commands, the subject has a duty to obey every one of the commands: the correct as well as the incorrect.

But it's also nice to play a mature woman like Floria Tosca, a professional in control of her gifts and living life with a certain amount of command.

"We are especially dismayed by problems in the production of the records of activities of Norad and certain Air Force commands on Sept. 11".

Instead, we are admiring of how certain people commanded our restraint.

This might well be why the figure of the one who is certain, who commands respect, is the archetypal leader.

For 200 years a certain sort of people with a certain culture occupied the commanding heights of American society.