Sentence examples for could have commanded from inspiring English sources

He could have commanded a similar salary -- thought to be around $210,000 -- at any number of other schools.

Mr. Hawke, for instance, will receive about $2 million for his work in "The Purge," or double what he could have commanded up front.

Andersen could have commanded $3.2 million from the Heat, but by taking the lesser deal, he saves the Heat more than $1.5 million on their luxury tax.

Ms. Avery was no longer a Hale House employee, and it is not clear whether the brownstone could have commanded a higher price.

To comply with the National Basketball Association's salary cap, the Timberwolves filed Smith's one-year contract for $1.75 million, less than a third of what he could have commanded as a free agent.

As a ruse, N.B.A. officials said, the Timberwolves' managers had informed league officials that they had signed Smith to only a one-year contract for $1.75 million, less than a third of what the 6-foot-10-inch player could have commanded as a free agent.

The strategy Vardi (also a friend) employed for Mirabilis was sound, but could ICQ have commanded such a price a few years later?

"As a historian of colonial and revolutionary America, he was one of the giants of his generation, and a writer who could well have commanded a larger nonacademic audience than I suspect he received," said Pauline Maier, a professor of American history at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

So the problem remains of how a people could have been commanded and what exactly was "recognized" there if it is not the case that at some point in history the commandments were revealed by God.

(A D.E.A. agent told me that the Hondurans could have issued commands with arm squeezes and hand signals).

Its essence was the idea that such a system could have a joint command and control system, that it could be adequate for the potential threats, and that it should not undermine strategic stability.