Sentence examples for command the public from inspiring English sources

"With your strong and independent character, with your Germanic blood, which enables you to command the public's sympathy more readily than I can, you seem more suitable than anyone I know for this mission," he wrote.

He had said he wanted "a Cabinet made up of the ablest men in America, leaders in their own right and not merely by virtue of appointment — men who will command the public's respect and the President's attention by the power of their intellect and the force of their ideas".

Steven McRae tries to command the public, but dwindling attention spans refocus on the corps and their articulation, the costumes and how they dazzle in the spotlight, or even the man in the next seat and his incredible fashion sense.

In the few cases that command the public's attention, Professor Campbell said, the court often strikes down the law under review.

Those are important matters, but they aren't exactly commanding the public's attention and admiration.

Yet it is not certain that public journalism commands the public's interest: the Dayton paper's circulation is flat.

That, in the end, is why it commands the public's nearly unanimous support.

Once, I believe, a scientist like Steinman would have commanded the public's undying adulation, much the way Jonas Salk did.

But wherever, he came from, and however long he held the spotlight, few personalities commanded the public's attention as joyously as Dizzy Dean.

For the roughly 70 days of the government known as the Paris Commune it indeed seemed as if a voice — booming and epochal — had been given to a group that had seldom commanded the public ear.

A suggestion by which the Democratic Party could command the greatest public attention for its positive agenda: It could within weeks call an extraordinary midterm convention to draw up its platform.