It did not have the height or the power of what he had once commanded.
You've escaped now, and become the spirit of the ship you once commanded.
He urged men and women he'd once commanded to keep ships away from the station; out of danger.
They would have made certain of my death--- I, who once commanded them.
Reynolds, like Lee before him, had once commanded the Point.
He who had once commanded the lives and destinies of a hundred thousand men to now be dependent on one old woman.
"You once commanded one of the armies, did you not?"
He once commanded Ladder Company 110, to which his son was assigned.
Yet the reptiles no longer have the lure of the exotic that they once commanded.
Today he would not qualify for a job in the army or bureaucracy he once commanded.