Sentence examples for city commanded from inspiring English sources

Terry Donnelly, a director who worked on the classic New York movies from the late 1960's and 1970's, "Midnight Cowboy" and "The French Connection," said other areas of the city commanded more attention from filmmakers.

The biggest of his auxiliary armadas was Service Force Ten, an enormous floating city commanded by Commodore W.R. Carter, which shifted west from Majuro to Eniwetok to Ulithi to Leyte as Spruance's well-supplied warships won victory after victory.

Despite these difficulties, the city, commanded by Deputy Voivode Samuel Drucki-Sokoliński Drucki-Sokolińskiout 1633 wheld the Coutonwealthroughoutits newly elected King Władysław IV, organised a relief force.

Blending modern and traditional architecture, the city commands a view of the Gulf of Oman and serves as a port and commercial centre.

Dramatically poised atop a protrusion of rock that rises from the valley floor, the city commands panoramic views of mountain ranges in every direction and is popular with tourists.

As he spoke with Thomas, Camp evoked his readings of the glory days of the 1960s and '70s, when workers at manufacturing and meat-packing plants in Chicago and other cities commanded middle-class wages.

His brother Titus Flavius Sabinus II, as city prefect, commanded the entire city garrison of Rome.

Next door at Ferguson Burger Bar, owner Charles Davis was also watching the news and hoping the Justice Department's report would lead to an overhaul of the police department and of the city "command structure".

The city also commanded a land route that ran north along the west Anatolian coast and crossed the narrowest point of the Dardanelles to the European shore.

Augustus was careful however to uphold the republican veneer of this regime, and only allowed nine cohorts to be formed (one fewer than in a normal Roman legion), which were inconspicuously scattered across various lodging houses in the city, and commanded by two prefects.

Few other places in the City can command the crowds that pack Vertigo or GE on a Saturday or Sunday night.