Sentence examples for have preferred command of from inspiring English sources

Though Ernest would have preferred command of the King's German Legion, composed mostly of expatriates from French-occupied Hanover, he accepted the post.

"Secretly, all of us have preferred opponents".

He slew Marsyas, one of his captains whom he had preferred to a considerable command, for dreaming that he killed him: without some previous waking thought and purpose of the kind, he could not, he supposed, have had that fancy in his sleep.

It is a welcome contrast to the command-and-control systems, such as the common agricultural policy, that the EU has preferred in the past.

She has got to have command of her body.

Regulators, however, continue to prefer command and control instruments.

He likes a free-flowing, open fight; Mayweather prefers commanding  the centre of the ring, or laying on the ropes, clinching and counter-punching.

"The staff have a command of their material.

Gingrich should have taken command of the race in December.

Must have excellent command of English.

At least one of the parents must have adequate command of the Dutch language.