Sentence examples for was to command from inspiring English sources

I certainly felt uneasy about how simple it was to command an army of mobile helpers via my phone.

Emma was pregnant by him when he was appointed second in command to the elderly admiral Sir Hyde Parker, who was to command an expedition to the Baltic.

Psychiatry, Salmon continued, needed a nosology that would "meet the scientific demands of the day" if it was to command public trust.

Morison demanded that typography be functional: the task of the book and the newspaper designer was to transmit the author's text clearly, and the task of the advertising and display designer was to command attention.

Because of his knowledge of the northeast coast of North America, he was commissioned a captain in the Spanish navy, but Ferdinand's death canceled a voyage he was to command in 1516.

A mere 16 years later, after training in Wiltshire, as a commissioned officer, he was to command a battalion of the 4th KAR and, when in civvies, wore the KAR tie all his life.

One is to command militias made of fishing vessels.

Captain Fried who is to command the new liner kept calling it the S.S. Manhatting.

Part of the goal of the venture is to command higher ad rates.

Firoza's routine duty is to command the Afghan Local Police in the area.

Half of the trench was to be commanded by the French, the other half by the Americans.