Sentence examples for command a force from inspiring English sources

The Pentagon has not been asked to take on Iran, which is thought to command a force of at least 10,000 fighters in Syria, including government soldiers and militiamen.

He had spent two years with the Kandahar Strike Force, before leaving in 2007 to command a force of police and several checkpoints in the area around Ahmed Wali's hometown of Karz, according to friends and relatives.

Patton did not command a force in combat for 11 months.

The regiment moved to a garrison posting in the Ionian islands in 1819, and his time in the islands saw him command a force which put down a local rising on Santa Maura.

"This is not Baghdad," said Lt. Col. Patrick Malay, who commands a force of about 950 marines in Diwaniya.

Now he works full time commanding a force of about 220 Reaper pilots, sensor operators and intelligence analysts at the base.

In the spring offensive of 1849 he commanded a force of 20,000 men, based on the fortress of Komárom (Komarno), that harried the Austrian armies.

In 1777 Herkimer commanded a force of about 800 militiamen in an effort to relieve Fort Stanwix, threatened by a combined force of loyalists and Indians.

Mr. Ruhullah commands a force of about 600 gunmen that works for Watan Risk Management, a security firm overseen by Rashid and Rateb Popal, who are cousins of President Hamid Karzai.

C. 53 BCE Surenas, Farsi Surena or Suren (died c. 53 bc) Parthian general of a noble family, who commanded a force of 10,000 mounted archers and heavy cavalry.

Just to the west of the Kurdish capital Irbil, General Sirwan Barzani, who commands a force of 15,000 Peshmerga troops, says that though Isis has suffered losses it can still launch attacks.