So the pragmatism sets in: to command the numbers they need to create a presence at protests, unions are helping organize workers who are not paying members and have little prospect of becoming so in the near future.
Sharp, the electronics giant that commands the number one position in the Japanese market for personal digital assistants (PDAs), is planning a major assault on the U.S. and European handheld markets this fall with a device called the Zaurus.
Even if a party loses a lot of votes, as Labour did in 1994, its leader can still become prime minister; so can a leader of a party that does not command the biggest number of seats.
The Bosniak Party of Democratic Action headed by Bakir Izetbegović, son of the revered war-time Bosniak leader, will command the greatest number of parliamentary seats, but a majority coalition of other parties is not out of the question.
"One comes away flabbergasted," Kotkin writes, "by the quantity of information he managed to command and the number of spheres in which he intervened".
The UN calculates a population's human capital based on its average years of schooling, the wage its workers can command and the number of years they can expect to work before they retire (or die).
Statistical wizardry is required: to calculate human capital, for instance, the UN uses figures on average years of schooling, the wages workers can command and the number of years they can expect to work before they retire (or die).
Armed fighters of the Syrian Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) gather on a street before fighting against Islamic State (IS) group on November 7, 2014 The Syrian regime, meanwhile, has lost some 60,000 troops in the course of its civil war – yet still commands the name number again as the SDF.
Based on those figures, David Cameron was expected to no longer have the numbers to command the confidence of the House of Commons.
The two Mauretanian provinces were governed by men of equestrian rank who also commanded the substantial numbers of auxiliary troops in their areas.
