Burnett's fastball command abandoned him early Wednesday, and he could never recover.
That shot put an exclamation on Hernández's departure and he looked sullen after the game, trying to explain how his command abandoned him.
Destitute and dispirited, most of the officers under his command abandoned their posts at sunrise; it was not the first time, he said, that such a thing had happened.
When Mark Sedwill, permanent secretary of the Home Office, appears before the Commons Public Accounts Committee on 9 October he will be asked why the Border Force and the UK Border Agency have been transferred into Theresa May's direct command, abandoning their former status as arm's-length bodies, with managers supposed to think for themselves.
In other words, the German high command had abandoned hope of victory or even of holding their gains and hoped only to avoid surrender.
According to the rebels, army garrisons, including at the area's command centre, abandoned their bases and weapons, and fled.
Alternatively, Lindemann may have left his combat position when the ship's controls were rendered inoperable, and prior to the lethal hit on the command position, in order to give the command to abandon the ship.
Shinoda gave the command to abandon ship, but neither he nor Nishimura made any attempt to leave the conning tower as the ship capsized within five minutes and quickly sank, stern first, vanishing from radar between 04:19 and 04:21.
The DFAC assumes an all-propulsion command authority, partly abandoned by the actual GOCE control system because of electric micro-propulsion not being fully developed.
It became clear that Kokoda was lost and the following morning, under the cover of a dense mist, with the PIB's commanding officer, Major William Watson, assuming temporary command, the survivors abandoned the position and fell back towards the village of Deniki, a mile or so back along the Kokoda Track towards Isurava.
Enron imploded because the company abandoned old-fashioned command-and-control in favour of fashionable ideas about running energy companies as if they were financial organisations.
