Traditionally from wealthy, powerful families, a zaim presides over large patronage networks, is seen as the protector of his sectarian community and commands high levels of loyalty.
Aristotle has already made it clear in his discussion of the ethical virtues that someone who is greatly honored by his community and commands large financial resources is in a position to exercise a higher order of ethical virtue than is someone who receives few honors and has little property.
Honoring the courage of the community, he commanded that other subjects respect its principles and banned hunting and cutting of trees in the Bishnois' villages.
Emphasis has, for example, been laid upon Ezra 9 2 and 10 2, in which the reestablished community is commanded to give up wives taken from "the peoples of the land".
"Police chiefs will confide in him, and at the same time, he can convene meetings of people from the grass-roots civil-rights community and command the same kind of respect," said Thomas E. Perez, assistant attorney general for civil rights in the Justice Department and an old friend.
The black community took command of that word, and now when something is particularly good, we say, "ain't that bad?" I asked Willie Mitchell in the 1990s how his new collaboration with Al Green was going and he told me: "Awful, man, just terrible".
Enjoying broad support from committed members of the community, and commanding the necessary two-thirds vote required to pass such a ballot initiative, Measure LC became law.
The crime and community trauma commanded the concentrated attention of Jasper's primary formal and informal social organizations.
In these cultures the older age groups can speak for a community and command respect from the host community in a non-threatening manner.
Although he served as the spiritual leader of Iraq's Shīʿite community, Sistani also commanded the respect of Sunni Arabs and Kurds.
