Sentence examples for which he commanded from inspiring English sources

And indeed the armies which he commanded played a large role in the victories of 1918.

He made his living from his published works and from teaching piano, for which he commanded exorbitant fees.

Rylance played Philippe V of Spain, whose severe depression could be alleviated only by the singing, which he commanded every day, of the celebrated castrato Farinelli.

In 1625 the fleet which he commanded recaptured the islands of Ré and Oléron, and in 1628 he fought against Henri de Rohan in Languedoc.

Nevertheless, Eliot was unequaled by any other 20th-century poet in the ways in which he commanded the attention of his audience.

His troops were then ordered to Virginia to join General Ambrose E. Burnside's IX Corps, which he commanded during the Battle of Antietam (September).

This book presents, for the first time, the full range of Nash's diverse contributions not only to game theory, for which he received the Nobel, but to pure mathematics--from Riemannian geometry and partial differential equations--in which he commands even greater acclaim among academics.

The film speaks profoundly to anyone who has suffered from depression: it is something to compare with Michael Henchard's will at the end of Hardy's Mayor of Casterbridge, in which he commands, in a kind of imperious agony, that no one must remember him.

Adm. Ackbar is a Rebel Alliance military leader seen in "Return of the Jedi," in which he commands the Rebel fleet in the attack on the second Death Star.

Duncan didn't respond to messages seeking comment sent to his new employer, Emerson Collective, or the talent group Creative Artists Agency, for which he commands a $40,000 speaking fee.

But the focus of the room is his draftsman's desk and reclining chair, from which he commands a spectacular 180-degree view of the coastline from Oceanside to Mexico.