Sentence examples for managed to command from inspiring English sources

Even when he managed to command attention on the domestic front, Mr. Bush faced challenges.

Now, less than two weeks later, those bad-seed children had managed to command the full attention of her husband.

Cohen, 25 and the 2006 Olympic silver medalist, finished fourth, with 174.28 points, but still managed to command some of the spotlight.

It was Presley who first told her about Johnny Cash, intriguing her with his description of how he managed to command an audience onstage while staying perfectly still.

"One comes away flabbergasted," Kotkin writes, "by the quantity of information he managed to command and the number of spheres in which he intervened".

But he still managed to command the loyalty of his staff, by engaging them on their own terms, and by delving into the details of their highly technical research, according to several current and former fund employees.

For at least its first 15 minutes "Dead Accounts" does manage to command your attention.

"When you manage to command a space, people understand," he explains.

He graduated in 1968 and went to Vietnam, managing to command his men through a firefight even after suffering injuries.

But Domingo still manages to command the stage effortlessly, his presence sufficient to bulk through the crowds, his voice strong enough to make Gheorghiu's sound small.

It can't be just to drive all the other candidates crazy, although Mr. Bloomberg is most definitely doing that, with all the attention he manages to command.