Sentence examples for commanding public figures from inspiring English sources

But are you more likely to get commanding public figures leading the major cities as a result of a mayoral system?

They don't command public sympathy.

The truth is, command public services today are no more acceptable than a command economy.

Celebrity has influence only insofar as it commands public support.

Now, however, it seems morality has been taken back from the moralisers and has once again become the high ground from where public figures look to command.

Supposing exhibitions of designer clothing are the ideal way to command respect for a public figure, the nature of Diana's legacy is particularly vulnerable – as memories fade of her consistently astonishing behaviour – to being lost under a heap of jewelled Versace and fashion writer superlatives.

Americans (and, to a lesser extent, Britons) no longer expect public figures, whether in oratory or in writing, to command the English language with skill and flair.

So do most public figures.

Public figures do it too.

Very few public figures do that.

But they remain very different public figures.