Sentence examples for commanded to start from inspiring English sources

For example, it could be commanded to start only with an unusual gesture — perhaps drawing a circle in the air, or touching a certain number of fingers on the wall.

Early in his career, while developing a machine that used servomotors, which can be commanded to start and stop very precisely, Mr. Gilmore began considering ways that they might be used in a self-tuning piano.

On 28 October, Rosetta will be commanded to start "phasing" its orbit ready for landing.

On December 20 , 1998 the main bipropellant thruster on the Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft was commanded to start a 15-minute burn.

When the drivers were given the command to start their engines, hers did not.

Mr. Kilpatrick, 31, gave the ceremonial command to start destruction of two three-story-high concrete berms outside G.M.'s Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit.

Only Jillian's two kelpie dogs were operating at a different rhythm, bounding and skulking among the horses, waiting eagerly for a command to start work.

When a vulnerable machine is discovered, it is infected with malware that lies there undetected, awaiting the command to start pinging the site that has been chosen for an attack.

You could give a command to start Pandora, for instance, and then request "Play station Coldplay radio" and it will play through the car's audio system.

Kinect will allow the player to use voice commands to start races and navigate menus.

The race's honorary grand marshal was skateboarder Tony Hawk, who gave the command to start the engines.