Sentence examples for instead of commanding from inspiring English sources

Instead of commanding people to follow him, he invited them to join him.

Instead of commanding his players to play harder, he asked them how they could play harder.

Instead of commanding soldiers, the player is instead controlling a group of survivors as they explore the broken city for food and medical supplies.

And in fact, exactly the same thing happens in missions crewed by humans, except instead of commanding the onboard computer to do it, you just ask the pilot nicely.

But instead of commanding a staff of 65 in a complex of offices in City Hall, Ms. Gotbaum has a staff of 29 in the Municipal Building across the street, down from the 45 or so employed by her predecessor, Mark Green.

In the future, the United States will have to compete with Moscow for political influence in Germany instead of commanding it.

I generally use these instead of command line arguments.

It will involve engagement without control, and coordination instead of command.

Instead of commands to cut speed or check mirrors, they offer the traveller a series of life-affirming mantras.

Instead of command and control from the top down, Harley had a vision of the people closest to a problem resolving it by consensus.

You could tell because when you put in rude words instead of commands (as I defy anybody to resist doing, whether it's Zork or Siri on your new iPhone 4S), the game recognised them and chided you with appropriate twinkle.