Sentence examples for command the students from inspiring English sources

In spring 1917, he was elected to command the students' volunteer army, set up to defend the school from marauding warlord soldiers, arming these troops with makeshift bamboo spears and wooden rifles.

At their teacher's command, the students crouched on the floor, covered their noses and mouths, and evacuated the room as though it were on fire.

Tara, the instructor, wearing a headset mike, commanded the students to stand next to their chairs and flap their arms, and then led them through squats and lunges.

Immediately, she allegedly initiated a "sexually and racially motived inappropriate and demeaning relationship" and commanded the student to engage in sexual relations with her daughter.

Skinner tries to command respect from the students, and briefly succeeds after threatening to hang them in their clothes on hooks on the wall if they rebel.

Because Zhou knows Yue is poor, he commands the four students to become sworn brothers.

"This is a setback for the efforts to enhance the command of English for the students," said Shamsuddin Bardan, the federation's executive director.

Halbach and Lazaro (2015) found in their study a great deal of heterogeneity among the different higher education institutions, as well as multiple systems for assessing and accrediting the students' command of English.

The emerging consensus seemed to be that people should either run or fight the attackers, because obeying their commands as many of the students did when asked to lie face down in their hostels would result in certain death.

The presence of an unhelpful Dr who failed to rescue or take command of the situation caused the students additional stress.

A virtual keyboard, adjustable in size and language, could appear on the screen on command, with students also using pen-like styluses equipped with infrared LEDs.