Sentence examples for ordered around from inspiring English sources

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He is merely under arrest, finished with for the time being, ordered around, and in a state of total humiliation and vulnerability.

"This is where the G-20 can work, as long as they don't feel ordered around by the bigger countries," he said, citing the agreement by Beijing and New Delhi on food stocks.

Now I am the politician who has the plan for that reform; who wants to see the single market safeguarded and not have us ordered around by the single-currency countries".

Being ordered around by a foreigner with a gun, particularly a young man who knows nothing of your language and little of your culture, is always a trigger for discontent.

"Joe is able to set clear objectives and mobilize the people" without making them feel they are being ordered around, Vasella says.

However, it is known from contemporary sources that there were many deviations to this rule, especially in regard to mothers over their sons, and empresses who ordered around and openly humiliated their fathers and brothers.

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He wants a "Dick Tracy watch" that he could verbally order around, instead of pushing buttons.

He still has the Rock and Stone Cold Austin to order around.

Suddenly he's the one ordering around men his father's age.

NOW, an office containing 10 to 250 people can order around 30 kinds of food from 70 vendors.

As a child, he would order around the children of other noblemen as "regiments" pretending to prepare for war.

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