Sentence examples for is at the command of from inspiring English sources

"My heart is veiled, but my soul is at the command of God," he said.

Here, Handel's use of Nò, di voi non vo'fidarmi has Sedley Taylor's unqualified approval: "[Handel] bids the voices enter in solemn canonical sequence, and his chorus ends with a combination of grandeur and depth of feeling such as is at the command of consummate genius only".

Whether he is at the commands of his train or at line management, the main actor in railway operation is the human operator.

 We can have a separate discussion about what the standards should be — they are not fixed — but Petraeus surely knows what they are. His recklessness and whatever combination of narcissism and clumsiness that lay behind it are open to question. Most of all, Eisenhower would have been at the command of a military in which women are the indispensable ones.

And of course the police will be at the command of the NFL.

One senior official said many mysteries remained about Iran's continuing work, including whether it is being conducted at the command of Iran's leaders.

And since our will is at the simple command of fingertips, round and round we go.

Regeneration is a word not often associated with summer towns — ephemeral by definition and seldom more so than on an island whose geography is entirely at the command of a mercurial ocean.

In audience after audience veterans rose to be recognized at the command of Mr. McCain, who was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam.

In Vologda, a city in western Russia, I was shown a church that had been constructed at the command of Ivan the Terrible, who denied food to the builders in order to get them to work faster.

Over the years, dozens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki survivors have all said the same thing: even after the atomic bombs, they were ready to endure whatever had to be endured at the command of Emperor Hirohito.