Sentence examples for seek to command from inspiring English sources

The task of maintaining the country, however, is more complex than the individual's duty of self-preservation, for the country must seek to command the attachment of a community of citizens as well as to preserve itself from external violence.

Some examples of a value and its corresponding behavior include the value of power -- people who value power seek to command others or to lead.

Ferguson seeks to command every occasion, so that he views anything he encounters as a challenge, to his authority, to his intellect, to his stamina.

She left NASA in 2009, knowing that there would be intense jockeying by astronauts seeking to command one of the few remaining flights.

This ties directly into the whole movement towards sustainable development, which relies on listening to and engaging with all stakeholders, rather than seeking to command and control and respond to only to those who have a seat at the top table.

Burgoyne, seeking to command a major force, proposed to isolate New England by an invasion from Quebec into New York.

Too many still seek to control, directly or indirectly, their economies' commanding heights.

When, on the other hand, she felt herself unneeded and unappreciated by her husband, she seems to have sought unconsciously to command his attention through bouts of sickness".

Today's professional composers of perfumes seek to elicit a different command: Come hither.

My prayer is that we would all turn our faces towards our risen Savior and seek to selflessly follow his commands.

Just two weeks after losing its much-lauded chief executive in a flurry of embarrassing revelations about his personal life, it now faces the prospect of seeing a prized Russian gas field wrenched from its possession as the Kremlin seeks to consolidate command of its energy resources.