Sentence examples for which he commands from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

He seemed less like a visiting emissary than like a proconsul inspecting a vast operation over which he commanded much of the authority.

He lost the latter in 2002 when he was declared unfit for trial.Today even the army, which he commanded for a quarter of a century, has mixed feelings about his old regime.

After the Battle of Shiloh (April 6 7 , 1862, in which he commanded the reserve, he was promoted to the rank of major general and thereafter took part in many campaigns, including Vicksburg (June 1863), the Wilderness (May 1864), and Shenandoah Valley (1864 65).

Tait's major successes were in his work on the royal commissions on ritual (1867) and as spokesman for the Anglican church, a role in which he commanded esteem in the House of Lords.