Sentence examples for had no command over from inspiring English sources

Martin O'Malley had no command over the room, since his eyes wandered during every speech and his words lacked conviction.

I had a hazy notion that he was a corporal, or a lance-corporal, but it is made quite clear that Hitler had no command over anyone; and he is referred to throughout as "Private Hitler".

I had a hazy notion that he was a corporal, or a lance-corporal, but it is made quite clear that Hitler had no command over anyone; and he is referred to throughout as "Private Hitler".

Is better than a man who has no command over his tongue.

He has no command over Congress; he cannot whip even his own party into line.

The question that presses on "Inferno" is whether it seized up because Clouzot, too, was stalled by emotions over which he had no command.

He has no command function over Army Reservists.

Similarly, military officers have no command authority over CAP members.

Al Qaeda still inspires, but has no command or control over the grassroots, where much of the terrorist action is in the world today.

The 86-year-old former dictator barely mentioned the United States when he argued in his own defense that he had no operational command over the troops that massacred and terrorized the Maya-Ixil population during his rule in 1982 and 1983.

The thing about the mercenaries, which we know from memoirs of those who served in Iraq, is you have no chains of command, you have no control over what they do".