At the same time, he prospered in business; in 1860, he founded the Germania Life Insurance Company, which, by the time of his death, four decades later, occupied a commanding position in the trade.
Having occupied a commanding position in the Chinese e-commerce market as recently as 2004, eBay is now in the position of being a global Internet giant reaching out for local help to what is, by comparison, a small Internet player.
He declined a senior command position in the United States Army and resigned to become a general in the Confederate Army.
When they declined, he summoned another general, Johnny Lumintang, and offered him a top command position in the hope that he would be more compliant, but he, too, declined.
It is the reason every officer in a command position is paired with a more experienced NCO.
There's no manual that teaches you what a major incident is, but if you don't know from all your training, you shouldn't be in a command position.
The writer doubts whether there was another Air Forces general who occupied a more confusing command position in the war.
Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. has been confirmed by the Senate to succeed General Allen as part of a standard rotation and is expected to take up the senior command position in Kabul in the coming weeks.
New York City's new police commissioner, Bernard B. Kerik, has decided to "clean house" by removing the highest ranking female officer in the Police Department from her command position in the Bronx, in his view to improve department leadership (news article, Sept. 7).
