Sentence examples for could not command from inspiring English sources

But he could not command the markets.

So the alternative government could not command a majority.

Facebook, the online social grid, could not command loyalty forever.

Another, more pessimistic take was that libertarianism simply could not command majority support.

But Pettitte's arm was not responding, and he could not command the flight of the ball.

Down a goal, the club simply could not command possession of the ball.

It was in last place in the morning and couldn't command the advertising.

He acknowledges that most of us couldn't command the attention an ex-mayor does.

In Detroit, Saunders couldn't command Rasheed Wallace's attention the way Larry Brown had, and the Pistons slipped just a bit.

"Before, I couldn't command my two-seamer; it was always tailing off the plate and no one would swing at it," Kennedy said.

The difference was that the novel couldn't command belief with religion's authority, because it was already too aware of its own status - what Wood, citing Thomas Mann, called the "game of not-quite".