Sentence examples for like commanding from inspiring English sources

They say directing a film is like commanding an army.

Asking him to be different is like commanding the sun not to rise.

If Dr. Whitson had dangled even a small chance at a plum assignment, like commanding the International Space Station, "I probably would have stayed," said Dr. Grunsfeld, 52.

And many sites, like toostupidtobepresident.com, are so enamored of the Web's visual possibilities that they assault viewers with animations of Mr. Bush doing supposedly funny things like commanding a Star Trek-style space ship (the "U.S.S. Enron Prize") and playing the role of Winnie the Pooh ("George Double Yooh") to Tony Blair's Christopher Robin.

Sitting in the driver's seat is like commanding a luxury yacht.

Its data centre in Rockville, Maryland boasted a NASA-like command centre run by former military technicians still sporting crew cuts and smartly addressing supervisors as "sir".

Really?) Donnelly also has a Wikipedia-like command of pop music, in one four-page stretch mentioning Nirvana, Elliott Smith, Nada Surf, Green Day, Jack White, Jeff Buckley, Simon and Garfunkel, and Lil Wayne.

Imagine a flotilla of police vans unloading two dozen Valkyries in full war cry on to the seafront in Worthing with the chief constable in Wotan-like command.

Mr. Pittman, sometimes known as Bloomberg's Yoda for his Jedi-like command of economic issues, had quietly surmised that the Fed was holding tightly to the secrets of the bailout.

The events were part of a demonstration dubbed "Move-in Day," a plan by protesters to move into the vacant convention center and use it as a commune-like command center, according to the Web site occupyoaklandmoveinday.org.org

You could issue English-like commands to the chip instead of talking to it in 0s and 1s.