Sentence examples for sought command from inspiring English sources

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Hamilton sought command of the new army, though Washington would be its titular head.

While on Washington's staff, Hamilton long sought command and a return to active combat.

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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.

The trial, which opened last week, is the first in which prison terms have been sought for commanding officers accused of being the intellectual authors of abuses committed during Guatemala's 36-year civil war, which ended in 1996.

Most parsimonious trees were sought for using the heuristic search command, with Leptoceratops constrained as the outgroup.

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

In June 1916, when his battalion was merged, he did not seek another command but instead returned to Parliament as a private member.

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.

France needed Zidane to have the ball more but, with Gattuso on his shoulder, he did not seek nor command play.

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.

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

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