Sentence examples for command early from inspiring English sources

Williams, the 25th seed, took command early with a steady stream of winners and powerful serves.

Murray took command early in the first set and was hardly troubled as he advanced to the last four.

Blake appeared to be in command early against the 6-foot-10 veteran Karlovic, claiming first two sets.

The challenge was certainly more fun to observe on Saturday, with its three-set spectaculars, than on Sunday, when Soderling took command early and never relinquished it.

Louisville appeared to be in command early, but the Pirates rallied late in the first half and trailed by 45-43 at halftime.

Matt Clement 13-122), trying for a career-high 14th victory, was in command early until losing his control in the Pirates' five-run fourth.

Burnside, who had taken over the Army when McClellan was relieved of command earlier that month, was determined to bring battle to the enemy, and he ordered the Army to advance once more to the Rappahannock.

Syracuse is the outright regular-season Big East championship and the top seed in the Big East tournament, but the Orange nearly blew a game it commanded early.

Despite a commanding early lead, Mr. Havel's longtime political nemesis, the rightist former prime minister Vaclav Klaus, was unable to win the required majority in a contest against the Senate president, Petr Pithart, a long-time Havel ally backed by the government's minority Christian Democrats.

Bell, 31, walked away from a deal that would have paid him $890,000 this season — a far cry from the $6 million salary he commanded earlier in his career but still significant.

The package is less than Cespedes, a Cuban defector who is expected to play center field, might have expected to command early this off-season, when there was talk of a $50 million deal.