Sentence examples for command credence from inspiring English sources

In the United Nations, India was the only nonaligned country to vote with the Soviet Union on the invasion of Hungary, and it was thereafter difficult for Nehru to command credence in his calls for nonalignment.

They argue that chaos or the rise of militants in the West Bank and Gaza would substitute a clear extremism for Mr. Arafat's ambiguity and his ability to command credence and sympathy overseas.

The older slanders cannibalism and incest that had troubled the Apologists in the 2nd century no longer commanded credence.

The latest case to command attention, ignite furies and lend credence to these particular urban mythologies revolves around the efforts of a former federal prosecutor, James D. Harmon Jr., to overturn the city's rent-stabilization laws based on personal grievance.

"He is 36 years old," Mr. Spencer writes, "he has commitments, and until now he gave no more credence to the transforming, commanding power of love than he did to the myth of Atlantis".

We have some pity for the carmakers, because while customers complain about the usability of such technology, those same buyers seem to want all the gadgets just because they lend some (albeit likely specious) credence to the very high prices luxury cars command.

Embellishments gained credence.

You have to give him some credence.

The voices gave credence to that feeling.

An old theory thus gains credence.

Makhul certainly gives credence to this claim.