And although al-Hakim never held a government position, he commanded respect from those who did.
At his peak he commanded some 20, 000 men, with better weapons than the Burmese army.
He was joined by crew members of a Navy gunboat he commanded during the that war.
Before that, he commanded Carrier Group 5 based in Yokosuka, Japan, starting in June 1998.
From the moment Jack arrived in this world, he commanded all the attention in a room.
He commanded Texan forces at the Battle of the Alamo and died there on March 6, 1836.
Like Solomon, he commanded his minions to undertake great projects and summoned them to show him the results.
Then he did the same for one of the ballerinas, and then the orchestra, which he commanded to play.
He commanded thirty-five police in Kushamond, in a station just down the road.
"He commanded his fastball on both sides of the plate and was really good again, " Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez said.
The Welsh Guards he commanded were in awe of his levels of fitness, and enjoyed his sense of adventure and fun.
It's where he landed after returning from Vietnam, and where he was stationed in the mid-1970s when he commanded a Navy attack squadron.
Armstrong launched onto the world stage in July 1969, when he commanded NASA's Apollo 11 mission to make the first manned moon landing.
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On the one hand, all but one of Mr Kerry's crewmates from the two Swift Boats he commanded in Vietnam have rallied to his side.
His presence and the way he commanded nearly everything which came in the box was great and when we were under pressure he was there as well.
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He has served in Iraq, where he commanded engineers rebuilding the country's infrastructure and he has also completed a tour in Afghanistan, helping to train the Afghan National Army.
Mr Golden's colourful character (parked outside his office is the orange Harley he used to ride around the deck of a carrier he commanded in the Gulf) might break through to disaffected voters.
Tsipras acts as if he commanded a majority, but he achieved less than 17% support on May 6 -- and for all the ink spilled about him he will not get a majority in June.
And so to see this man, this senator, this powerful, accomplished person who wasn't out of central casting when it came to what you'd think a senator might look like at the time, and the way he commanded the respect of an entire nation I think it hinted to me what might be possible in my own life.
He also commanded his sales force to start hawking Clariion just as hard as Symmetrix.
He had commanded the international forces in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and was probably the cleverest and the most highly praised soldier of his time.
Then there is Mr Brown, the clunking brainbox impatient for his turn, who bragged as chancellor that he had commanded boom and bust to cease and was caught behind the knees as prime minister when the economy collapsed.
He also has commanded U.S. Forces Japan, the 5th Air Force and U.S. Pacific Air Forces.
He's the guy who commanded the Army's First Armored Division in Iraq from 2004 to 2005.
He spoke fluent English, and commanded slavish devotion from his agents.
With his outsize helmet of hair, razor-sharp mustache, shieldlike spectacles and confident grin, Earl Hines in the 1970s (and his 70s) commanded attention even before he sat down at the piano.
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He therefore went to the shore and commanded the sea to recede.
He was a very strong manager who commanded respect, I think, throughout the industry as well as from those who worked with him.
"He is a person of credibility and decency that commanded respect on both sides of the aisle, " Conrad said.
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