Sentence examples for command anything from inspiring English sources

Ernest Race, John and Sylvia Reid and to some extent Robin Day don't command anything like the commercial values of their Scandinavian or American contemporaries," he says.

The group MomsRising has jumped into the U.S. political debate, hosting video chats with senators and speaking on issues like health care and equal pay, but it does not command anything near the level of attention accorded to Mumsnet.

It is far from clear that companies like MF Global are important enough in the global financial markets to command anything close to the level of regulatory attention that is devoted to giants like JPMorgan Chase or Citigroup.

The young Mr. Assad, a relative neophyte who held no official position in the government or the party while his father was alive, is unlikely to command anything close to the independence and absolute authority of the deceased ruler.

He comes from the Oakland A's, who nearly toppled the Yankees during the playoffs the last two years but cannot command anything close to the Yankees' ticket and television money.

Even in these circumstances, however, the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Plaid Cymru, Wales's nationalist party, were unable to command anything near a majority of votes (the SNP's reached 22% of the vote in 1997 and Plaid Cymru a mere 10%).

"I don't command and control anything," Admiral McRaven said in an interview.

"I wasn't commanding anything from the get-go," Marcum said.

Unlike previous governments, Thatcher's never commanded anything close to a majority in a general election.

But neither commanded anything near their sky-high asking prices.

Maduro was handpicked by Chávez to succeed him before he died of cancer in 2013, but has never commanded anything like the same level of loyalty. .