Sentence examples for did command from inspiring English sources

Command economies conducted no experiments and worked by ignoring preferences.Why, then, did command economies take so long to fail?

So it would not be at all surprising if he did command his top officials to break the law in this fashion.

Too nice a man to have made a successful soldier himself (though he did command a transport platoon during the Mau Mau uprising), Leo thought that those who had been at the sharp end deserved to have their say.

An accompanying hymn made these attack ads a multimedia experience: The regulars then he did command These citizens to kill And far from home, their wives and land Their blood he there did spill… And God forbid, our President This Jackson e'er should be; Lest we should to his camp be sent, And shot for mutiny.

When President Lyndon B. Johnson proposed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and declared, in his memorable Texas twang, "We shall overcome," he was articulating a moral position that could and did command the respect of citizens of any or no religion.

Attention she did command, becoming not only the most visible reformer but also the most controversial, and not only because she appeared while D.C. chancellor on the cover of Time magazine holding a broom, a symbol for her intent to push out anyone who got in her way.

But this rushing of airliner doors does command serious attention.

But he does command the support of many independents and Democrats.

That figure seems hyperbolic, but the Olympics do command a gigantic audience.

But he does command elephants and panthers in the Gebel-Williams tradition.

"So hotels can — and do — command premiums for any rooms they can sell".