Sentence examples for a significant command from inspiring English sources

But during the war he held a significant command in the Ixil Maya region of Quiche province, a region where some of the worst massacres, disappearances, and human-rights abuses of the war took place.

He never received a trial, and after his release he would not hold a significant command during the war again.

The use of Special Operations forces in the attacks, though, is a sure sign that coalition commanders viewed the targets as unusually significant command centers, not the ordinary kind of outpost that might be easily destroyed by bombing.

Gloucester was led by Edward Massie, a non-partisan mercenary who only took a job with the Parliamentarians after he was refused a significant Royalist command.

Yitzhak Rabin, who became the Army chief of staff in 1964, gave him his first significant command, and three years later, in the Six-Day War, Sharon waged a brilliantly successful tank attack against the Egyptians at Abu Ageila.

Significant command and control problems were experienced trying to vector the fast military jets onto the Boeing before they ran out of fuel.

And the effectiveness with which it was put about, the degree to which the truth was sealed away, demonstrated a significant level of command and control.

The Coalition policy is that all NHS trusts should become FTs by 2014 [ 63], which is coupled with statements that there will be a significant reduction in command and control activity from the centre (for example, the use of targets is to be abolished [ 64] – although the new outcomes framework [ 65] seems remarkably similar to a target in practice).

At the height of his career, Smith held several significant commands in both conventional conflicts and "wars amongst the people".

As Napoleon insisted, Nansouty stood up to him, finally retorting: "After all, it is not Your Majesty at any rate who can teach me to lead cavalry... ...... Despite this remark, Nansouty would continue to be given significant commands in the coming years.

Such research indicates a significant relationship between command-and-control leadership and organizational functioning (Barling, et al., 1996).