Sentence examples for command of power from inspiring English sources

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The orphanage had made him disciplined, football had honed his fitness, and after one year, he was recommended for officer training, despite the 1914 Manual of Military Law barring a "negro or person of colour" from exercising "any actual command of power".

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Its services include the provision of control and command of electric power, cable management, power distribution, and voice-data-image distribution.

As his life settled down, his command of the power of language became, it seems, wary of outreach into risk and turbulence.

In fact, she is in full command of her powers.

Hannah, who died last year, had a refined eye for the outrageous; this collection shows he retained full command of his powers to the end of his life.

Hannah (1942-2010), a Mississippi native, had a refined eye for the outrageous, and "Long, Last, Happy" — a 31-story retrospective that includes tales from his four previous collections — shows he retained full command of his powers to the end.

He began as awkward steward to a slain hero he resented, grew into full command of his powers while beset by self-doubt and self-loathing, and finally seemed to will his own descent.

In any case, they show us a writer who even at the end of his life retained full command of his powers, and was unswerving in his commitment to staging what the narrator of "Scandale d'Estime" calls an attack on "a world fouled by the gloomy usual".

The nonchalance and dismissive ease with which he swatted Scotland's Alex Hurst to the floor during the Kiwis' 40-4 quarter-final win hinted at a man in supreme command of his powers.

A sequence that tours a circus shows Young's early command of his powers, describing "a still bull/ elephant brought/ and tamed from/ the plains of greyest// Africa…/ acrobats with flesh/ colored costumes lying// beneath his harmless dark/ foot".

The deeply conservative general now has virtually absolute power, with command of the powerful military and the authority to impose curfews, stifle political opposition and cut funding for the populist programs undertaken by former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and her billionaire brother, Thaksin Shinawatra, before her.

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