You give a command and the elephant lifts its front leg, which you then use as a step to scramble up and sit on the neck.

He asked his friend for permission to give the command.

Giving a command for street parties next summer when their restless subjects probably had other forms of street action planned.

After they had advanced closer to the line, the sergeant gave the command to open fire.

At a certain point in the night, he gives the command, the mandatum that would come to mark that event.