Last month the government said it would bring forward to the autumn other measures planned by Labour requiring many immigrants marrying UK citizens to prove they have a command of English.
Since last autumn, people from outside the EU applying for a visa to join their spouse or partner now have to prove they have a basic command of English before their application is approved.
The two larger parties have a clear line of command, a leader whose authority is rarely, if ever, questioned by colleagues.
Up the street, one of the city's many volunteer booths is staffed by eight young people who don't have as good a command of different languages.
Mr Young is on the list of candidates who, according to the Republican high command in Washington, have a strong chance of defeating the sitting Democrat.
Because that fellow American, Paula Jones, no matter how she may have been described by commentators and pundits and talking heads, etcetera, did have a bundle of rights at her command.
We continue to have joint activity in Afghanistan, and the Turkish armed forces have taken over the command of the forces there for a third time with the additional support that we have sent to Afghanistan in the last couple of months.
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Thus, the most significant policy response we have seen today has been the creation of a military command, USCYBERCOM.
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Unlike past viruses that have hijacked armies of PCs, Storm doesn't place the command and control of the network in a single computer.
Under the peace agreement, northern troops should have been withdrawn in July, to be replaced by a joint command of northern and southern troops.
In order for that to occur, Research In Motion will have to start by selling a large enough number of phones to command media headlines for a day or two.
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All those key stakeholders have been selected on the basis of inclusiveness and representativeness with a certain command of legitimacy and respect in the work they do and represent as individuals and organizations with the women and youth groups at the district and national levels.
If and when Apple debuts this functionality a minimum of three other competitors will have already deployed it for voice command and content search.
Because the Commander of the U.S. Central Command will have a key role in administration in Iraq, many have thought that our plans for Iraq are based on what the Allies did in Germany after World War II.
And in the same vein, can you also address -- is the reason that we have one command now and we'll move to something else in a matter of days because of the urgency with which this operation was undertaken?
But you have to understand that there's a lot of disagreement at the senior military command level about the wisdom of a surge, if you will, or an increase.
Warner, the public defender for some Guantanamo detainees, has said frustrations have grown since a change in command last year, which was followed by a number of new policies.
Our proposals will also be informed by leading external figures including academics and others who command public respect and have a recognised interest or expertise in the different elements of democratic reform.
Since then, there appears to have been a wave of retaliation from a gang known as the PCC, or First Command of the Capital.
He apparently wanted to wait until GM could command a better share price and then have the company go fully public at once instead of in several installments as per the current plan.
O'Sullivan will not want to start to dissect his team just yet, but Cardiff could be the swansong for a number of players who have given their all over the past four seasons under his command.
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The great believers in command economics, who led much of Africa to independence, would have been dumbfounded at a recent gathering, organised by the World Economic Forum, of southern African leaders in Harare.
More than 130 people have died in the last two weeks as part of a conflict between the police and the gang, known as First Command of the Capital (PCC).
If it was so easy to hack back into a command and control machine, law enforcement would catch more of the bad guys and cybercrime would not have become the perfect crime.
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Information, communications, and networking technologies have all facilitated substantial advances in rational control mechanisms such as monitoring and command-and-control, while creating a hierarchy of expertise that requires deference to the more technologically sophisticated.
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