Sentence examples for command of men from inspiring English sources

But you must understand that this was not my endeavour, I was under the command of men with no mercy.

He remained with the Army of the North until August 1793, establishing his mastery in military operations as well as in the command of men.

In "Baby Jane," Aldrich also shows the judgment and command of men as debilitating and deranging — whether in vaudeville in 1917 or in Hollywood in 1935.

Life's sister magazine, Time, was no less susceptible to his rough-diamond charm, calling him a "hard-headed, steel-willed" corporate chieftain with "horse sense, a command of men, and the driving force of a triple-expansion engine".

Trump said he received more military training in prep school than most actual soldiers did, and he had been required to live under the command of men who had gone on to careers as real officers and soldiers.

At its tamest, clowns wobbled into each other in tedious pranks; at its most inhumane, elephants were beaten into submission at the command of men whose grand designs for entertainment consist of coercing biological miracles to parade around like epileptic ballerinas.

The child Émile is to learn through experience, not through words; he is to bow not to the commands of man but to necessities.

Since then, a third man, Novak Djokovic, has taken command of the men's game.

Washington, at his camp west of the Delaware River, planned a simultaneous attack on both posts, using his whole command of 6,000 men.

In front of them stands British Captain Preston with — who is in command of the men — and in front of Preston is an angry crowd.

Hsieh Chin Tuan, the corporal in command of the men in their warehouse stronghold, was the last to leave the building, and, as he ran into the International Settlement, tears of rage were streaming down his face.