Sentence examples for general commands from inspiring English sources

Rules are general commands (applying generally to a class), as contrasted with specific or individual commands ("drink wine today" or "John Major must drink wine").

The financial sector in general commands a far higher profit rate than the retail sector.

It is a member, and participates in many NATO operations: one-third of the 10,000 French soldiers on missions abroad are under a NATO banner; a French general commands the NATO force in Kosovo.

Positive law consists of those commands laid down by a sovereign (or its agents), to be contrasted to other law-givers, like God's general commands, and the general commands of an employer to an employee.

And, according to Hare, people who utter general commands that are directed at themselves will normally but not invariably act in accordance with those commands (Hare 1952, 169).

The chapter presents some general commands that are often used during such synthesis, which include reading a design, setting constraints on the design, creating clocks, handling clock skews, and others.

Colonel Sadiki was the only FDLR commander who had managed to become independent from the general command.

When his father was king, Abdullah, then a general, commanded these men.

The leaflets dropped Tuesday are signed by the armed forces and the army's general command.

It took part, under Allenby's general command, in the Syrian campaign helping to capture Damascus.

Instead, the speaker of the lower house of Parliament, Thura Shwe Mann, a former general, commanded the spotlight.