It made me realise that commanding 30 children all at once shouldn't be done as often as we all do.
They cost about three dollars for a pack of twelve, and they have exerted a magical, commanding power over children since they were introduced about a year ago.
He has the apparent arrogance and abruptness of a pampered child or brilliant bachelor don, which infuriates his commanding officer at Bletchley Park, Commander Denniston, played with gimlet-eyed ferocity by Charles Dance.
Among them are Colonel Thompson's commanding officers, his psychiatrists and counselors, his children and several P.O.W.'s he had met.
We parents are loathe to recognize these baser motivations for some of our parenting decisions -- those that stem from our own demons and doubts -- but they play a commanding role in how we rear our children nonetheless.
Two young children are taken over by two commanding adult figures.
But that auction did not include Sally Hemings's children, as Annette Gordon-Reed records in her commanding and important book, "The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family" (Norton; $35).
The former United States Open champion Webb Simpson cruised to his fourth career victory on the PGA Tour by a commanding six shots at the Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.
The judge told Sardar that Sgt Johnson, a family man with two young children, had been described by his commanding officer, Major Eric Adams, as showing "deep compassion" in leading his platoon.
The official said that Deputy Inspector Ann Marie K. Connell, the commanding officer of the Special Victims Division, which oversees all child abuse squads, was present at the meeting in City Hall on Sunday and provided those details.
As it stands, children will gravitate more toward his antic, commanding and inventive sidekick pooch.
