Sentence examples for To commander in chief from inspiring English sources
After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 1941), Nimitz was elevated to commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, a command that brought both land and sea forces under his authority.
"For a politician looking to hone hard-power credentials — a woman who aspired to commander in chief — it was the perfect training ground".
The show is a telling counterpoint to "Commander in Chief," an ABC show that began in 2005 and starred Geena Davis as a vice president who takes over the Oval Office when the president has a stroke.
After the 1947 partition of British India he was rapidly promoted in the army of the new Muslim state of Pakistan: from major general (1948) to commander in chief (1951).
Harris was made an air commodore in 1937, was named air vice-marshal in 1939, and rose to air marshal in 1941 and to commander in chief of the RAF Bomber Command in February 1942.
She recalled reading something that George Stephanopoulos, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton, wrote about feeling differently about Mr. Clinton when he went from candidate to commander in chief.
He was made second in command at the Cape of Good Hope in 1797, succeeding to commander-in-chief the following year, and he died while in command there in November 1798.
She was studying in London at the time of the coup and her father was promoted to commander-in-chief of the air force.
"We cannot promote someone to commander-in-chief who has made the world a more violent and dangerous place with every bad judgment she has made.
The central function, the religion, of the US establishment media is adulation of those who wield power, especially military power as personified by the inaptly referred to "commander-in-chief". Brinkley conducted the interview in the Oval Office from his knees because - with some significant exceptions - that's the posture which US media culture assumes in the presence of the royal court.
Having gone from private to Commander-in-Chief, Reagan missed saluting.
