Sentence examples for assuming command from inspiring English sources

Prior to assuming command, he served from June 2006 to March 2008 as commander, Special Operations Command Europe (SOCEUR).

Col Frost was slated to be the next Northeast Region commander after he relinquished command of the Wing, but he died before assuming command.

After assuming command, Gibbon refashioned his brigade – literally.

He took part in war patrols on the submarine Gar before assuming command of the Tirante.

We began our work as Petraeus was assuming command of a faltering war effort.

Peter Mandelson, the Northern Ireland secretary, was assuming command of a desperate salvage operation, instigating crisis talks with Ulster Unionists.

The ship's previous commander, Pringle Stokes, might not have shot himself, a tragedy that led to Robert FitzRoy assuming command.

"That has often made it difficult for someone assuming command to get people under him to follow his policies".

Young Blakeney is in the thick of it, assuming command of the Surprise while her master swings aboard another ship.

Alliance officials said that defense ministers even broached the idea of NATO eventually assuming command of that division, but the meeting adjourned without any proposals being officially offered.

Two months after assuming command of the American Red Cross in September 1999, Healy flew to Geneva to address a large assembly of the International Red Cross movement.