Sentence examples for right to command from inspiring English sources

Frequently it carried with it the pay, right to command, and uniform of the higher grade.

Under Gallienus, senators lost the right to command legions and much of their part in provincial administration.

The essential premise of the divine-right idea is that the right to command obedience cannot be bestowed by man; only God can grant such authority.

The operational command of the army was to be held for one day in turn by each of the 10, but the four who had supported Miltiades surrendered their right to command to him.

At the spring 2011 collections, held last week in New York, Mr. Goreski found that he was famous enough in his own right to command a seat in the front row.

The contract for the Comiskey Park match gave Patterson the right to command a return bout before Liston could fight anybody else, but I hoped that the former champion would waive the privilege.

An admiral, for example, has the power-right to relieve a captain of her power-right to command a ship.

Such examples were "very much on my mind," Mr. Lawner said, "so the person had to be the right person, with people skills, with the right credentials, to command respect, to be able to lead".

The phenomenology of claims of good and right are also distinct: the good attracts or appeals, whereas claims of right appear to command authority.

After the capture of Sevastopol, Hitler felt Manstein was the right man to command the forces at Leningrad, which had been under siege since September 1941.

Sledders primarily run on fast trails groomed by snowmobiles, shouting "gee" to tell the dogs to pull right and "haw" to command them left.