Sentence examples for command an event from inspiring English sources

Match commanders are trained to an incredibly high standard, and no one is allowed to command an event without appropriate extensive training.

SILIVRI, Turkey — The retired men in this town of rolling hills, red shingles and resentment of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan paused their card game to voice their fears over the protest resignations of most of Turkey's military command, an event that underlined Mr. Erdogan's stamp on an era he can call his own.

It exists primarily to allow the chancellor to command a second big parliamentary event of the year (indeed this is the third of 2015, in which Osborne has already delivered two budgets, one of them only four months ago).

Bolt commands a fee of $250,000 to appear at an event.

Two days earlier, American soldiers in Baghdad joined in repulsing a highly coordinated attack by insurgents on one of the main military commands in Baghdad, an event that underscored the ambiguities of the new phase of the American military role in Iraq.

Yet it's been an age and a half since a Disney picture commanded the status of an event, a situation due partly to the shifting sands of culture and economics, and partly suspect quality control (it seems unlikely much of the aforementioned ripple at the BFI was caused by the prospect of Dinosaur or Treasure Planet being re-introduced to the big screen).

It is easy for celebrities to command considerable fees for attending an event, and vastly more for endorsing a brand.

And if Mr. Bush is aware of Secretary Powell's world reputation, Mr. Rumsfeld surely remembers that he was already serving in his first tour as defense secretary 25 years ago when Secretary Powell shook his hand as a lean Army colonel in command at Fort Campbell, Ky., an event that Secretary Powell commemorated with a photograph in his best-selling 1995 memoir.

An MIH packet for an event or command can be replayed later to the same node.

"International designers are continually influenced by the style and lifestyle of LA, and Los Angeles Fashion Weekend is growing into an event that commands attention from around the world".

The risk for Purnell is that his act of courage - or foolhardiness - will not pull the government down with him, but leave it standing but impotent, the cabinet weakened but intact, too strong to fall apart entirely even though too weak to command events.