Sentence examples for supposed command from inspiring English sources

If that were the case, it would constitute the direst kind of criticism by the author (either Chick or Mr. Bellow), implying that the hero's supposed command of the finer things was merely a pose and a sham.

This is being obscured by the bombast accompanying the first days of military action with military experts pontificating about the terrible damage being done to those targeted and television viewers ghoulishly watching pictures of missiles and bombs destroying supposed Isis command and control centres.

They are supposed to command how to use the algorithm, but that should not be their only tool.

As the speaker, you're supposed to command the room, but like most people, you probably look at yourself as being, well, normal.

And, we are rather to incline to this construction, than to suppose the command of the constitution to have been disobeyed".

Controllers were supposed to transmit commands to the rover through a Deep Space Network antenna in Canberra, but rain and lightning made for a weak signal, said Jennifer Trosper, the mission manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.

Unknown to Diệm, General Đính, the supposed loyalist who commanded the ARVN III Corps that surrounded the Saigon area, had allied himself with the plotters of the coup.

The command structure would not listen, so Manning went beyond them to the people who are supposed to control the military in our democratic republic.

It was supposed to prove my command of English.

What was supposed to be a command center for tracking fugitives at a government building in Bangkok was dark, musty and empty on a recent visit, inactive because of a lack of funds, according to the staff.

The problem was that Joe was supposed to issue a command to take down a small number of servers on an S3 sub-system, but he made a mistake, and instead of taking down just that small set of servers, Joe took down a much larger set.