Sentence examples for by taking command from inspiring English sources

By taking command of the USS Rushmore, Howard became the first African American woman to captain a U.S. naval ship.

And say this for him: by taking command of the play-calling, he's doing the honorable thing: putting himself on the firing line, figuratively and maybe literally.

UAL's Goodwin Resigns; Ex-Weyerhaeuser Chief Creighton Takes Reins Though he lacks airline experience, Jack Creighton said he was energized by taking command of UAL's United Airlines.

Magnus declared that Kintyre had "better land than the best of the Hebrides", and by taking command of his ship's tiller and "sailing" across the isthmus he was able to claim the entire peninsula was an island, which remained under Norse rule for more than a dozen years as a result.

SR Serbia, headed by Slobodan Milošević, adhered to centralism and single-party rule, and in turn effectively ended the autonomy of the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina by March 1989, taking command of their votes in the Yugoslav federal presidency.

In the five months since she took over as mayor, Ms. Robles has surprised beleaguered residents of the capital city by convincingly and cheerfully taking command of one of the largest and most chaotic metropolises in the world.

Their match was the final here last year, a two-day, mood-shifting ordeal that was interrupted by rain when Djokovic was taking command Sunday evening.

Africa is taking command of its future by tackling an ancient plague: malaria.

Williams started aggressively in the third set, but Davenport broke to go up by 4-2 and take command.

Eyre was next appointed by Lord Collingwood to take command of the squadron in the Adriatic in April 1809, a command that then consisted of three ships of the line and seven or eight frigates.

By then, Ceku had taken command of the K.L.A.