In the demonisation of an unknown enemy for whom the label "terrorist" serves the general purpose of keeping people stirred up and angry, media images command too much attention and can be exploited at times of crisis and insecurity of the kind that the post-September 11 period has produced.
As for Scotland, their game against England may not command too much attention north of the borderon Saturday, but their coach insists that opportunities such as this will enable the sport to stand a fighting chance in developing nations in the future.
The vicious voice of the few has commanded too much of the debate, and has resulted in an act of vandalism to the work.
The market can be good thing and even necessary; but it now commands too much, claims ultimate significance, controls too much space in our lives, and has gone far beyond its proper limits.
It requires far too many splashes of water for my face to feel only moderately clean, and commands too much time in my already-packed nightly skin-care routine.
In his book Rediscovering Values, Wallis writes: "The market can be a good thing and even necessary; but it now commands too much, claims ultimate significance, controls too much space in our lives, and has gone far beyond its proper limits… if the market ultimately defines what gets our attention, we will be defined by the moral limits of the marketplace".
And a socialist command economy puts too much power in the hands of the state, again endangering political equality and also threatening basic liberties such as free choice of employment.
Steve Dewar, of the King's Fund health group, complains that there have been "too many heroic promises and too much command and control", though he welcomes the new money in the Budget.
The messages we got from social workers around the country were clear: too much command and control, too little discretion for experienced and capable practitioners, too much responsibility too soon for novice social workers, excessive bureaucracy, and unhelpful, extremely distracting inspections.
"This is where sometimes progressives get frustrated with me," he said, "because I actually think there was a legitimate critique of the welfare state getting bloated, and relying too much on command and control, top-down government programs to address it back in the seventies.
Instead of tackling the mathematics involved in the challenge, initial lessons had to teach the necessary programming language commands, and students spent too much time working on the esthetics of the dance.
