Sentence examples for in an attempt to command from inspiring English sources

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Prime ministers can use cabinets in an attempt to command, as Margaret Thatcher did, or to build consensus, as John Major did.

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Mr. Bush's advisers will attempt to command the agenda in the remaining days with an intense and grisly procession of television advertisements and attacks by Mr. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney on the issue.

Even more daunting is the attempt to command the movie screen with such a show.

Titled "The Enchantress of Florence," it is set in Renaissance Florence and the court of the Mughal Empire as it tells "of a woman attempting to command her own destiny in a man's world," a Random House announcement said.

Hearts, who have put their entire squad up for sale in an attempt to stay afloat, will not be able to command a transfer fee for Danny Wilson.

And those who follow, let alone partake in, these negotiations, endlessly locked in an attempt to produce climate agreements which command assent, or at least acquiescence, from every single country here, are used to dealing with absurdities which follow more or less logically.

Following the allegation the Ministry of Defence sent 300 soldiers back to their home country prematurely, ending an agreement to put 2,000 soldiers through basic infantry and junior command training in an attempt to help rebuild Libya.

In an attempt to increase the firepower of his new command he asked for and was given two 12-pounder long guns to use as bow and stern chasers, but the scantlings could not support them and they had to be removed.

A British brigadier is expected to join the UN command in Freetown this week in an attempt to coordinate the peacekeepers and the government army.

In an attempt to overcome this compartmentalization, Andrews bypassed the chain of command on 8 January 1938, in a memorandum of his own regarding a minor joint air exercise held in November 1937 off the Virginia Capes.

But the "information" Heydrich had received was actually misinformation planted by Stalin himself in an attempt to legitimise his planned purges of the Red Army's high command.

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