Sentence examples for 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.

" On the thorny issue of Europe and the prospect of a referendum by 2017, which threatens to test both the Prime Minister's negotiation skills and the level of support he will now try to command from the back benches, he pledged "to deliver that in-out referendum on our future in Europe".

"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".

Shortly before the chase, Mr Kelliher, of Brunswick Street, Reading, had got out of his car to try to command traffic lights to change from red to green when a police car came towards, the court heard.

It's like trying to command the tide.

King Canute was the monarch who vainly tried to command the seas not to rise.

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

One of the latest entries is also one of the largest, as if 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.