Sentence examples for a few commanders from inspiring English sources

"Except for a few commanders and these people" — he nodded his head toward the two minions with the hairdos — "he is hated by everyone".

Deep into the night, after his wives and small children were sent to sleep, Kony called George to his table where a few commanders, including Dog's Knee, kept the boss company.

Other governments have imposed "caveats" on their forces, refusing to let them move out of their comparatively safe areas in the north and west or to share their equipment, such as helicopters.General Richards says he is one of the few commanders ever to be sent into a theatre of war without a proper reserve.

GRAZDA One theory is that a few Taliban commanders who fought with the Communists now have a turban and beard.

But the officials said they did not coordinate the raid with the local authorities who, except for a few senior commanders, did not know how or when the operation was to take place.

One of the few commanders involved not to write a book about the conflict, Moore kept his counsel about its controversies, and let others take the glory for what was for him a fitting culmination to his career.

There are few commanders without their own Thuraya satellite phones.

In recent interviews with senior Pakistani Army and intelligence officials, however, few commanders said they wanted to carry out what almost certainly would be a bloody ground war in the mountainous, unruly tribal areas, preferring to continue to rely on helicopter gunship attacks, artillery barrages and F-16 airstrikes to pound the militants into submission.

The reform is actually very modest and would only affect the very few commanders who are general court-martial convening authorities, and only their power to refer cases.

In part it was, of course, Lee's early success — though the South had more than a few excellent field commanders, none blended tactical brilliance and strategic clarity in a clutch than Lee.

Morshead was one of only a few Allied divisional commanders with a distinct record of success at this stage of the war and had been acting commander of the British XXX Corps, a formation largely composed of Commonwealth troops, on two occasions.