Sentence examples for civil command from inspiring English sources

On April 20 , 1945 shortly before the collapse of the Nazi regime, Hitler appointed Dönitz head of the northern military and civil command.

An army needs to be legally under civil command, but, just as important, its generals, as well as its privates, must obey that authority.

He also made it clear that, were he posted to India, he would want the supreme military command in addition to civil control.

Its civil servants command high levels of public trust and confidence at home and envy among some EU colleagues (see article).But famous examples of maladministration such as the troubled introduction of a new IT system for the National Health Service, chaos in the allocation of rural payments and tax credits, and ill-drafted private-finance initiatives seem to justify concern.

Their savage civil war commanded the attention of the world.

The Fifteenth Amendment, passed in the wake of the Civil War, commands that the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race or color — and it gives Congress the power to enforce that right.

Yu Yunwen, a civil official, commanded the defending Song army.

Picasso's powerful "Guernica," painted in 1937 as a reaction against Franco's brutality during the Spanish Civil War, commands a room all its own.

In evaluating the prospects for all-out civil strife, the command concentrates on "key reads," or several principal variables.

The Condominium agreements established an office of governor-general, to be appointed, on British recommendation, by the khedive of Egypt and vested with supreme civil and military command.

During the U.S. Civil War he commanded the arsenal at Watertown, Mass.