Sentence examples for commanded the field from inspiring English sources

One side often overlooked the bailey (grounds between encircling walls); the other commanded the field and approaches to the castle.

Often the keep stood in line with the outer line of defenses, so that while one side looked toward the bailey (or succession of baileys) commanding the operations of the defense there, the other side commanded the field and the approaches to the castle.

After reading the newer books on Wilde, I returned to Richard Ellmann's 1988 biography, which, despite some errors and eccentricities, still commands the field.

MOSCOW, Aug. 8 — A giant cross now commands the field where the first shots of Stalin's Great Terror sounded 70 years ago.

In the essay that follows, Mr. Ebert's grief is tempered with resignation: "The celluloid dream may live on in my hopes, but video commands the field," he writes.

Some 131 players grown, recruited and polished in Florida will command the field for these teams and may well determine whether the Gators, the Hurricanes or the Florida State Seminoles have the inside track to a national championship.

The decisive battle took place at Nong Sa Rai, where Naresuen (who had become king in 1590) commanded the superior field position.

Possession of the hill above McFadden's Ford was critical, Bragg said: "It commanded the entire field of battle.

"This was one of the most overwhelming exercises of my career," said Maj. Hiroki Fujii, a 17-year-veteran of the self-defense forces who commanded the Japanese field troops.

He later commanded the 2nd Field Ambulance at Gallipoli and, with the rank of colonel, was Assistant Director of Medical Services of the 1st Division on the Western Front.

This march was one of only two times that a sitting president personally commanded the military in the field.