Sentence examples for hand in a command from inspiring English sources

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Mr. Gore's visage grew stern at the laughter and he held up his hand in a command to stop.

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As comptroller, he had a hand in a command-structure overhaul ordered by President John F. Kennedy.

They broke down the search area, running west from the Robert Moses Causeway to the Nassau County line, with eight four-foot sections of maps they kept on hand in a mobile command center.

The turnaround was fostered mainly by an abrupt culture shift in which government workers, contractors and the tech imports worked hand in hand, initially at a command center in Herndon, Va, Va.

The decidedly noncompassionate phrase iron fist has not even the smooth qualifier that Thomas Carlyle reported in 1850 was used by the Iron Duke's defeated rival: "Soft of speech and manner, yet with an inflexible rigour of command... iron hand in a velvet glove,' as Napoleon defined it".

The political costs to Trump and his party could be severe, as they now command a weakened hand in a series of critical issues looming this year, including the need to raise the federal borrowing limit to stave off a crushing default.

Try one in a command on the command line interface.

She reclines on a plinth, braids spilling down her back, her extended right hand fixed in a gesture of elegant command: a queenly figure, her shimmering skin spray-painted an unearthly metallic blue-green.

That person held the power source, probably a battery, in one hand and the command wire in the other.

The researchers selected 29 dogs of various breeds that had each been trained to put their front paws in someone's hand on command, a task called "giving the paw".

The device turns hand gestures into commands in a way similar to how theremins turn proximity into sound, making ::vtol::'s machine symphony like a theremin plus: as the human conductor wildly waves his or her arms over the podium, each speaker bends and rotates, the algorithm generating compositional changes.

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