Sentence examples for command conception from inspiring English sources
He offers three reasons for preferring the command conception in these cases.
In a review of Dr. Weigley's book "Eisenhower's Lieutenants: The Campaign of France and Germany, 1944-1945" (Indiana, 1981), Drew Middleton, a correspondent for The New York Times during World War II, supported Dr. Weigley's argument that the American command "lacked a clear conception of war".
This, odd as it may sound to say so, is relatively uncontroversial in modern ethical philosophy; for what I mean by morality here is its metaphysical conception as a truth or command that comes to us from "on high".
Of the May 1899 concert at St. James's Hall, London, The Musical Times reviewer remarked on the rawness of some of the music, but praised the "boldness of conception and virile strength that command and hold attention".
To some the conception of democratic control of an economy is going to be dismissed as nothing more than a slippery slope toward a "command economy" that failed when tried by the communists.
This idea is understood in philosophically noncommittal ways so that it can plausibly command support from all of the reasonable comprehensive conceptions of the right and the good affirmed by members of society and also from reasonable individuals who affirm no such comprehensive conception.
This outmoded historic conception of the concertmaster as a sort of second in command, ready to assume the podium if the conductor should be unable to continue, has persisted in the public imagination, Mr. Gniewek said.
The second was an extension and revision of Hobbes's conception of sovereignty and the idea of law as a kind of command.
In this first conception of authority as justified coercion, the authority may not even issue commands let alone make laws.
But I do not assume that my conception of patriotism or policy is invariably correct, or that my convictions about religion should command any greater respect than any other faith in this pluralistic society.
