Sentence examples for command after the first from inspiring English sources

Kuznetsova looked in command after the first set, but Wozniacki regained her focus and Kuznetsova stumbled badly at the end.

He was stripped of his command after the first battle in a dispute with General Gates, who had come to see Arnold as a competitor for rank and glory.

In the women's competition, Martina Hingis took command after losing the first three games and defeated Mary Pierce, 6-4, 6-2, to set up a showdown between the world's top two players.

Martínez, who struck out 11, walked none and allowed one run in seven innings, had terrific command after the raucous first.

But Papa Clem took command just after the second turn in the mile-and-an-eighth race.

"It's like releasing a pack of dogs," said Lieutenant Niall O'Malley Pearson, 26, last week after commanding the first attack in Britain's biggest military exercise for 17 years.

Gwyn was wounded at the Battle of the Wilderness in 1864, but returned to service after recuperating to take command of the Third, and eventually the First and Second Brigades of the First Division of the Union Army's V Corps.

When a command requires a puppy to do two other commands, you cannot pet the puppy after the first command.

The Liam Fox affair has reached the Conservative party's high command for the first time after it was confirmed that its leading fundraiser introduced donors to the former defence secretary, who then introduced them to his best man, Adam Werritty.

Later, during the broadcast of Sunday's game, which Pelfrey and the Mets won, Palmer praised Pelfrey for his ability to make the necessary adjustments after struggling with his command in the first two innings.

Chesney was sent to Hong Kong (1843 47) to command the British artillery after the first Opium War with China.