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A position of highest authority
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command
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The Command teaching style is the closest approximation to the traditional system of education under the progressive teaching technology, Student-Directed Teaching . As part of the five distinct teaching styles developed by Don Green, Command is the most ...
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Command \Com*mand"\, n. An authoritative order requiring obedience; a mandate; an injunction. Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose. --Milton. The possession or exercise of authority. Command and force may often create, but can never cure, ...
Usage examples of command.
Given his blue-blood heritage, the kid had expected to advance his military career with a few helpful nudges and memos directed to the appropriate commanding officers.
Persian Government, General Quinan, who was commanding in Iraq, had been ordered on July 22 to be ready to occupy the oil refinery at Abadan and the oilfields, together with those two hundred and fifty miles farther north near Khanaqin.
Lest, however, he might again fall into the hands of the raider, he discouraged Abdul Mourak in the further prosecution of his pursuit, assuring the Abyssinian that Achmet Zek commanded a large and dangerous force, and also that he was marching rapidly toward the south.
He accepts command of the cadet corps at West Point in 1851, considered by many as the great reward for good service, the respectable job in which to spend the autumn of his career.
But she has been assigned, in the division of the booty, to the king who commands the Achaean army, Agamemnon, and he refuses to give her up.
He commanded heralds to cry out loud and clear and summon the long-haired Achaean troops to battle.
The general had since established a command at Cambridge, and it was there that Adams was headed.
On the morning Washington departed Philadelphia to assume command at Boston, he and others of the Massachusetts delegation had traveled a short way with the general and his entourage, to a rousing accompaniment of fifes and drums, Adams feeling extremely sorry for himself for having to stay behind to tend what had become the unglamorous labors of Congress.
Adams said, was the best choice for the task, just as Washington had been the best choice to command the Continental Army, and again Adams had played a key part.
For Adams the ultimate command rested always beyond the reach of mortal men, just as the very natures and actions of men themselves were often determined by their Maker.
If Hamilton and his admirers in the cabinet had outmaneuvered Adams in the contest over command of the army, Adams had now cut the ground out from under Hamilton.
Two days ago, at the command of Adana, the bulk of these Emers were sent to the caverns to exterminate the remnants of the Urd.
Command Center Incirlik Air Base Adana, Turkey Tuesday, 7 March 1995 0300 Hours, Local General Harris walked into the ready room adjacent to his Command center just as Lieutenant Douglas Hill, the assistant operations officer, was completing a pre-flight briefing.
But she was the Boss, even if she was a police officer and so not part of his chain of command, and for Ade she always would be.
Dominion Joint Military Command on Asgard has announced that, as of four days ago, Adirondack has been occupied by the invading Troft forces.