Sentence examples for have been commanding from inspiring English sources

Surrealist paintings have been commanding high prices recently, and the Modern already has 15 other de Chiricos.

Ricardo Teixeira da Cruz, a leader of a militia called League of Justice, was reported in 2011 to have been commanding subordinates from prison.

We have been commanding and commanded by each other's officers on and off since we first went into Afghanistan, leading to some deep friendships and many interesting lessons.

Mining projects have long lead times and, as in Chad and Sierra Leone, much capital spending is already committed to Africa in response to the high prices that raw materials have been commanding until recently.

However, with the rise of Asian art-buying Maos have been commanding higher prices, such as the $17.4m paid at Christie's for a big blue one by Joseph Lau, the Hong Kong collector.

Rochdale can still look forward to a rare burst of publicity and, though they were subjected to a late onslaught, they could also point out that by the end of the first half their lead should have been commanding.

It remains the only major theatre of the war to have been commanded by a Canadian.

So, they reasoned, Abraham could not really have been commanded to carry out child sacrifice.

"Trovatiara" takes place on a dock in Tripoli, where three ravishing "pirate girls" have been commanded to perform for the cruel emir, Saddam el-Djaloppy.

That Einsatzgruppe could just as well have been commanded by the chief of Amt IV or V, or by an inspector or anybody else.

This is felt most acutely in Fukushima's "exclusion zone", whose residents have been commanded to stay in their shelters and where lorry-drivers are afraid or unable to reach them.