Sentence examples for challenges of command from inspiring English sources

Perhaps no general is in a better position to assess the new challenges of command than General Petraeus, who was sent to Afghanistan by President Obama to replace Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, who was relieved as the allied commander there after Rolling Stone magazine reported remarks he and his aides made that were critical or even disparaging of civilian leaders in Washington.

Mr. Obama talked, with echoes of Churchill, of the challenges of taking command of a nation beset by what he called "gathering clouds and raging storms".

Determining the decisive point of any battle is the quintessential challenge of wartime command.

Sen. McCaskill's bill gave senators an opportunity to back something substantive on sexual assault, without really challenging the macho chain-of-command system that has destroyed the lives of thousands of women in the military.

The truth is that Sen. Gillibrand and most of the women senators had aimed straight at a macho military culture, and most male senators wanted change that did not challenge the military chain of command.

Given the magnitude and complexity of challenges they face, command and control approaches are no longer relevant or efficient.

The bank has been too insular, too satisfied with its own (often faulty) analysis and with too rigid a chain of command to allow challenges to the shibboleths of those at the top (its boss is always called "Mr Governor").

He has challenged the utility of command-and-control-style federal regulation and has written favorably of programs to "name and shame" polluters as a way of getting them to clean up their operations without enforcement actions or fines.

The 1982 bestseller In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies "was a refreshing challenge to the old-fashioned model of command and control management," but that doesn't mean its advice was sound.

"It's always challenging to make your way up the chain of command," said Miriam Krinsky, another former federal prosecutor who led a blue-ribbon commission on jail violence.

And of course, the particular challenges of foreign policy now are ones that command continuing attention".