Sentence examples for the chance to command from inspiring English sources

12 October Back in the early nineties, the XCOM turn-based strategy games gave players the chance to command a secret government agency against alien attacks.

For Schrader, Exorcist: The Beginning offered the chance to command a $40m movie while simultaneously exploring his own tortured vision of religious faith.

When John Armstrong the only similarly qualified and more senior Navy captain was pronounced unfit for seagoing duty, Dowling was given the chance to command Australia's first aircraft carrier,, commissioned in England on 16 December 1948.

Diaz hopes for a Congressional screening of The End of Poverty?, stressing that he will rush to Capital Hill and assume all related expenses for the chance to command lawmakers' attention, even if only for a few hours.

When Marshall told Watson that Eichelberger's chances for promotion to major general were being adversely affected by being denied the chance to command a division, Watson added Eichelberger's name to the top of a promotion list and had the President sign it.

We receive a great deal of requests at the office to speak to large groups of people and it became a hot topic at a recent meeting with my team -- a debate, actually -- who jumps at the chance to command a large room and who would rather take a pass and watch.

At the Commander in Chief Forum, Hillary Clinton, the first woman with a chance to command our military, firmly and calmly stood her ground under hostile questioning, saying the most important quality in a commander in chief was to be "rock steady," and she was.

Mr Bush's last chance to command the national spotlight may come as soon as the state-of-the-union address on January 28th.And, with his power ebbing, he faces a mountain of problems at home and abroad.

Yet Corbyn, like Cameron, missed a chance to command the house.

ST. PAUL — The network news anchors, Katie Couric, Charles Gibson and Brian Williams, were diverted from here on Sunday, and with them went Senator John McCain's chance to command the national stage for four nights before a huge television audience.

This was Mr. McCain's first chance to command men (and a few women), but the squadron had a mediocre record and parts shortages meant that only half the planes were flyable at any time.