Sentence examples for without being commanded from inspiring English sources

If lightning, turbulence or some other problem caused a malfunction in the electronic control system, pilots might have difficulty flying or the airplane might begin maneuvers without being commanded to by pilots.

He said one of the pilots had enabled the device, but the second stage of its deployment had happened "without being commanded".

Indeed, Iranians are on the threshold of turning the Koran's ethical injunction into a democratic commandment: nothing good can be commanded without a vote of the people.

His strategy, to develop a converging attack, was not entirely possible without another Austria corps, which was commanded by Suvorov, and positioned in the mountains in Italy; this would have made possible the near encirclement of Masséna's command at Zürich, making the French position untenable.

The great Marlene Dietrich told me that in her German childhood upbringing, she was commanded to go without a drink of water when thirsty "to build character".

The mission team must decide if the harpoons can now be commanded to fire without unsteadying the robot still further.

Even if the MCAS isn't specifically mentioned, 737 pilots are drilled in how to respond if the plane is commanded to dive without crew inputs.

He is commanding ghosts, like the Wizard, but without a stick.

Her personality was commanding.

Stevenson commands a stage without being especially commanding.

There are very few subjects or skills that are not valuable to know or master but very few that one individual – or even a large group – needs, i.e., would not survive or even thrive without being in command of.