Sentence examples for we cannot command from inspiring English sources

Bloom is eloquent about this: "We are lived by drives we cannot command, and we are read by works we cannot resist.

As president, I cannot command the Legislative Yuan.

He is swept up in a storm of emotion he cannot command and cannot resist," James wrote.

He cannot command the 30,000 peace-keeping soldiers in Bosnia: the "stabilisation force" takes its orders from NATO.

An earlier study he commissioned showed minority broadcasters often cannot command the same advertising revenues as other broadcasters.

If you cannot command the trust and confidence of your key stakeholders, you're not the right person for the job.

Disruptive innovations usually find their first customers at the bottom of the market: as unproved, often unpolished, products, they cannot command a high price.

Many of these are small local firms that cannot command the access to credit, economies of scale or geographic diversification that big firms can.

Given the current threat, it is impossible to believe that President Bush cannot command departments and agencies to support this critical re organization.

Bill Shorten has declared Malcolm Turnbull should resign because he cannot command his own party and the voters have concluded he is "out of touch".

And though Marcelo Gomes cannot command the high-stretching arabesque lines of Oberon's role, he drives the steps of the Scherzo down onto the beat with a dark power I have not seen since Mr. Dowell himself.