Sentence examples for to try to command from inspiring English sources

Dotan said it wasn't far-fetched for the owner to try to command that kind of asking price.

But at a bigger size you have to impose complicated hierarchies and rules and regulations to try to command loyalty and cohesion.

"Absolutely!" Mr. Yarrow shouted to a questioner, and he raised his hands to try to command the attention of reporters and Kerry supporters at the police union hall here.

"We will pick up your banners," he said in a message directed at Mr Uribe, who will take a seat in the senate in July.Mr Zuluaga said that he too wanted peace for Colombia"—but a peace that will benefit only the people of Colombia: "We cannot allow the FARC to try to command the country from Havana".

The better way to engage it is, try to play fast, try to command the puck, try to get in and make plays and hopefully, see a result at the end of the night".

"Josh Scott, one of our best players, may have the best season out of all of us, but there was an exercise where he had to be on the bike trying to command the unit," Spencer Dinwiddie, a junior guard, said.

I keep clicking on my teenage Sims self, trying to command him to walk out the front door, stroll down the breezy avenue and go lie in the grass in the park across the street from our old house so he can hear the soothing sounds of the electronically sampled crickets.

One of the latest entries is also one of the largest, as if trying to command attention.

Given the strong artistic personality of Red Grooms, these two sculptors have a difficult time trying to command attention.

Other leaders who have tried to command respect are defectors from the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, and they are not often trusted.

The President tried to command the moment, but the one you wanted to look at was Urzua, standing there in his sunglasses.