Examples of commanded

• I commanded them to halt.

• He commanded one of the Highland regiments.

• He can't go round commanding people to do what he says.

• He commanded the ship during the second world war.

• The queen commands that you should go to her at once.

• Then the robot is commanded to align the surgical tool to the planned surgical tool path and to reach the tumor targets.

• In none of these letters is the preacher asked, or commanded, to have a copy of his sermon ready beforehand.

• In the first case, the warning is stated and, in the second, appropriate action is commanded because of the named actuality.

• Is it mere coincidence that his philosophy commanded the heights for a generation and appeared to all contemporaries as the consummation of the movement?

• His prodigious output of writings, chiefly on classical subjects, which during his lifetime commanded a good deal of respect, is rarely read nowadays.

• The moving platform is commanded to track a helical path, and the actuator forces are calculated with the two dynamics models.

• These institutional arrangements, which relied on discretionary targets and localized implementation, were 'sticky' in the sense that they commanded widespread respect among policy elites.

• Taking the term ' divine command ' in this most narrow sense, right reason dictates that an act be done explicitly because it is commanded.

• The voluminous press coverage of divorce cases commanded a large readership, but this very popularity had provoked anxiety about how such stories affected public morality.

• The residential plazuelas commanded 2.5 ha of land, probably used for agricultural production.

• Crucially, when a rating agency downgrades a security to speculative grade, the agency has effectively commanded certain regulated investors to sell.

• And he commanded that cattle and sheep should not be fed for three days and three nights.

• From all admissible angles the one closest to the angle commanded by the driver is set at the front wheels.

• This government was not a majority government, but it almost commanded a majority.

• However, the actions of this diffusive body are always commanded by the better sort.