Sentence examples for it commands for from inspiring English sources

Web extras, after all, are still mostly another gimmick by which a franchise can lure would-be advertisers to pay the platinum prices it commands for advertising during the show.

Viacom Co-President Tom Freston Tom Freston said last week that MTV's Overdrive broadband service, which serves up videos on demand, gets ad rates that are up to four times what it commands for an equal-size audience on cable.

Under Mr. Negroponte, who took office in April as part of the biggest intelligence overhaul in four decades, the C.I.A. no longer has the pre-eminence it commanded for decades.

They claim that Australia can only achieve the low price it currently commands for innovation by opportunistically "free-riding" on the research and development spending of developed nations, such as the US.

Alexa is always listening through a system of seven built-in microphones but waits for you to say the "wake word" to send it commands, like asking for the weather or which music to play, according to the company.

It commands our attention for some time, during which I can feel the eyes of the queue outside burning a hole in my back.

And like many of their products, it commands a premium for both the Mac connection and ostensibly a higher quality build.

This is big stuff, and the best of it commands attention without groveling for it, hitting a midpoint between regal and rustic that's all its own.

"Legacy" publishing does best in the first category: it commands the advances needed for research, the editing talent to shape the writing and the marketing muscle to distribute those doorstop biographies on Father's Day.

Locke makes the point about the law that it commands what is best for us.

Although Susana Siekavizza, executive director of Grepalma, the local industry association, said that Guatemalan palm is currently exported for cooking oil, the high prices that it commands reflect heightened global demand for a crop also used in biofuel.