Sentence examples for immense command from inspiring English sources

Cotes described Robey as having "a great vitality and immense command of the [role].

In the meantime they learned that a body of the enemy had come from home with an immense fleet commanded by Hanno, and they turned their attention to these new arrivals.

Were Pope Benedict and all the other religions to devote themselves single-mindedly to social injustice, they would command immense moral authority that would silence any quibbles from non-believers.

In this magisterial study of the "high city" sacred to the Greek city's goddess, Athena, Jeffrey M. Hurwit, a professor of art history and classics at the University of Oregon, displays immense erudition and command of the scholarly literature.

It is therefore all the more remarkable that together they comprise a highly developed logical theory, one that was able to command immense respect for many centuries: Kant, who was ten times more distant from Aristotle than we are from him, even held that nothing significant had been added to Aristotle's views in the intervening two millennia.

The people I refer to command immense power, yet they can do nothing without your cooperation.

He commanded immense power.

She still commands immense popularity across Burma despite her years hidden from sight.

Strong words, for a country where circumlocution is the norm, and probably very influential ones, given that the monarchy still commands immense reverence.

Absolutely focused on growing Tesco for its shareholders, as some suppliers would argue to their cost, he commands immense respect even from his most vociferous critics.

In Antifragile he tells a story about his father, a doctor, a scholar and man with "a large ego and immense dignity who commanded respect".