Sentence examples for not only commanded from inspiring English sources

She also said that the UK should travel only in step with the rest of the world, suggesting we should no longer seek to show the kind of leadership that Labour demonstrated in passing the Climate Change Act: a world first, which not only commanded an overwhelming majority in the House of Commons, with just five MPs voting against it, but also inspired action in countries around the globe.

Churchill not only commanded a battalion in World War I, but helped draft the first unemployment pension legislation.

In its position, D Company not only commanded the town but also its exit, the road to Miryang.

Peter not only commanded the audience with his talk but also left everyone excited and curious about the future of technology, science, and medicine.

But European nations not only command the operation here, they are also supplying all the combat troops.

The legislature not only commands the purse, but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated.

Hezbollah not only commands a well-trained and well-armed militia, which is widely seen as the best fighting force in the country, but also runs a strong political party with members in parliament.

Born in Munich and raised in Austria, he is a literary superstar in the German-speaking world, whose books and speeches not only command long reviews and responses in the high-brow sections of the newspapers, but also shift copies.

With Bioforce game controllers in hand, players not only command their virtual stand-ins to battle one another on the screen, but can also make their human opponents quake in their seats.

NATO had agreed late Thursday that it would take over not only command and control of the no-fly zone, but also the much riskier campaign to protect civilians through aggressive coalition airstrikes on Colonel Qaddafi's troops on the ground, the officials said.

The state lies close to both the geographic and population centres of the Western Hemisphere, in a position that not only commands one entrance to the Gulf of Mexico but also overlooks a strategic crossroads between North and South America and historic routes to the European and Mediterranean worlds.