Sentence examples for president command from inspiring English sources

The Kurds, who have lived for decades as a people apart from the rest of Iraq, have their own Parliament and president, command their own security forces and have signed lucrative oil deals with foreign companies without Baghdad's approval.

The president commands the armed forces and presides over the Supreme Council of Defense and the Superior Council of the Magistrature.

In one episode, a fictional President commands a member of his Secret Service to torture a suspected traitor: his national-security adviser.

The poll showed that the biggest change in support was among women under 50 with the president commanding their support by two to one against Romney, in part likely a response to the recent battles over access to contraception on health insurance.

Taken together, the articles convey that the president commands the armed forces once Congress authorizes war.

Indeed, Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota raised its insurance premiums 74percentt from 2000 to 2007 and its incoming president commands a salary of somewhere between $500,000 and $750,000.

Other presidents command respectable prices too, even those who you might not think have large constituencies.

I hope the president can command equal support on his side of the aisle".

Although the president can command moral influence, the post has little real power.

DuPont's fleet had already retired down coast to Port Royal, however, and he was unable to obey the president's command.

This law governs the activities of Americans abroad, so it applies almost entirely to soldiers and spies people under the president's command.