Sentence examples for command is active from inspiring English sources
But exactly what the command is "active" in doing is often far from clear.
However, the Baghdad Operations Command has been active in the capital since it was set up in 2007.
"The ping command," Windows informs my machine, "is used to test whether a network connection is active".
Rowley too was active, commanding the successful Invasion of Île Bonaparte in July and renaming the island Île Bourbon, basing his squadron at Saint Paul on the island's eastern shore.
The same high-command recklessness, after all, had been active in our Civil War, where massed rifle fire had some of the effect, on a smaller scale, of machine-gun fire.
The American command acknowledged that its helicopters had been active nearby, but said a joint investigation had revealed no such evidence.
Arrested in his Indiana home by the Union general in command of the state, Milligan had been active in a secret society friendly to the Confederate cause.
The Okavango Delta in Botswana became the 1,000th site to be inscribed on the UN cultural agency's coveted list, which has been active since 1978 and commands strict rules for conservation from host nations.
