While the Laws shares that notion of law per se as a brutish and stubborn commander, it recommends a "double" notion of law, in which each such command is prefaced with a persuasive account of its rationale, addressed to the citizens, who are expected to read and understand it (719b-723d, and passim).
Not since last year, he said, had he pitched with such little command of his best pitches, the slider and cutter.
He was throwing so well, with such great command of the knuckleball, I thought this might be something special today".
I remember Lasdun saying that he regretted not having been to university, and wondering what a man of such presence, with such marvellous command of English, and of so philosophical a bent, imagined a university could do for him.
All the actors are good, but Mr. Abkarian wraps his voice around the poetry with such supple command that the subtly stylized language becomes a dimension of his character, his exile, and passion and hunger for life flowing out of him like a song.
One might as well have a magnet with such condescending commands as "Love Your Children" or "Pay Your Taxes".
He fired 12 pitches — eight fastballs, a cutter, a slider, a curveball and a changeup — and incorporated them all with such precision and command that it recalled the mastery of the Rangers' other overwhelming left-hander, Cliff Lee.
He played with such authority and command that it was unnerving," Murali said.
Nonetheless, the Turkish confederacy remained a tribal nomad polity with both the ferocious formidability and fragility associated with such systems of command.
