Sentence examples for opportunity to command from inspiring English sources

The Giants will try to defend their Super Bowl championship with a schedule that is backloaded with tough games while the Jets will again have an opportunity to command headlines, with a Thanksgiving night matchup against the New England Patriots.

Though conventions are typically scripted with little drama, they offer candidates a singular opportunity to command the political agenda for a few days and to speak directly to a large national audience.

Out of the Pack The attacks have deprived most rank-and-file lawmakers of any opportunity to command attention, except Senator Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican who is also a heart surgeon.

And the poor journalist, who can hardly be expected to research the bibliographical history of an obscure renaissance manuscript, is handed what looks like a good story that presents an opportunity to command a prominent position in the newspaper.

Throughout his life, Custer consistently cultivated relationships with white Southerners — even those he had opposed on the battlefield — and he turned down an opportunity to command a regiment of black soldiers.

But even though Americans have seen a lot of Mr. Obama in the first 36 days of his presidency, the speech on Tuesday gave him an opportunity to command the stage in a way he had not yet done and served as an early test of whether he would be able to persuade Republicans to support any pieces of his agenda.

Empire's ability to capitalize on the opportunities and to command such a high price after only a decade of operation is credited largely to its founder - now president and chairman - Paul H. Quackenbush.

While the Starbucks deal is no doubt a huge win for Square from a branding and exposure perspective, these smaller chains could represent a huge opportunity for Square to command a meaningful part of payments for the regional merchant.

It is an opportunity for a chancellor to command another big parliamentary occasion, not a genuinely significant scene-setting event for the economy.

Instead, his vice president would take over, creating what many see as an opportunity for Mr. Chávez to command the country from behind the scenes and, in any case, permitting him to run again in the next presidential election, in 2006.

Nurse educators must be successful in turning these challenges into opportunities if nursing is to command a key role in an evolving US health care system.