Sentence examples for position commanded from inspiring English sources

When she joined the Court, in 1981, O'Connor was still basically alone among the Justices in how she saw the issue, but by 1992 her position commanded a majority.

The German defenders of Hamel were deeply dug in, and their position commanded a very wide field of fire.

Towering over the Rhine valley, the Godesburg's strategic position commanded the roads leading to and from Bonn, the Elector of Cologne's capital city, and Cologne, the region's economic powerhouse.

Its position commanding the narrow lowland entry into England from the northwest gave it strategic importance.

The islands occupy a position commanding the gateway to the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, and the entire Central American region.

The town stands at an important strategic position, commanding the entrances to the Laghmān and Konar (Kunar) valleys.

In the aftermath of the great recession, this mongrel position commands respect in other developing countries, which want to know how the BRICs did it.

In the early modern period, Savoy became an object of French expansion because of its strategic position commanding the roads into Italy.

Because of its size and strategic position commanding several key straits, Indonesia has acquired greater importance for the United States as Washington looks to counter Chinese economic power and territorial ambitions.

Its strategic position, commanding the mouth of the great Mississippi-Missouri river system, which drains the rich interior of North America, made it a pawn in the struggles of Europeans for the control of North America.

It can export the position commands to ensure smooth and accurate motion of a tool with a linear jerk change.