Sentence examples for a command he held from inspiring English sources
To oversee that broad and expanding portfolio requires a theater commander to establish a wide range of relationships not demanded of previous officers, said David W. Barno, a retired lieutenant general who was ordered to establish a new, three-star headquarters in Kabul in 2003, a command he held for 19 months.
Scheer was promoted to Kapitän zur See in 1905 and took command of the battleship in 1907, a command he held for two years.
Major General Harry L. Twaddle took command of the division, a command he held for its entire duration in World War II, making him one of only eleven generals to do so.
In 2008, Mr. Castro picked Mr. Machado to be his second in command – a position he held until he was succeeded in 2013 by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel.
In October 1943, he became the supreme allied commander, South East Asia Command (SEAC), a position he held until 1946.
In front of the line, the group's leader, Beau Welling, the president of the Alberta chapter and national vice president of the III%, stood calling commands quietly into a cellphone he held like a walkie-talkie.
In 2006, he was appointed director of the strategic command course at Bramshill, a position he held for six years.
He held no further command at sea, but in 1796 he was named governor of Greenwich Hospital, a post he held until his death.
He held a command in the Army of Northern Virginia for the remainder of the war.
Her first commander was (commander) Friedrich Tiesmeyer, the uncle of Ernst Lindemann; he held the command until January 1910.
