Sentence examples for command is responsible from inspiring English sources

The colonel's command is responsible for researching vaccines, therapeutic drugs and information about biological agents.

The command is responsible for the defense of Japan and South Korea.

General Alexander's new command is responsible for defending Defense Department computer networks and, if directed by the president, carrying out computer-network attacks overseas.

The command is responsible for preparing the 25th Infantry Division and other 8th Army units for worldwide deployment.

But on Capitol Hill, even some Republicans have begun to question whether the Pentagon's inquiries are too narrowly structured to establish the causes of the abuses, as Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and others have pledged to do, and then to determine if anyone in the chain of command was responsible for them.

In a series of official investigations after General Pinochet stepped down, Chile's own government found that the intelligence service and the army, acting directly under General Pinochet's command, were responsible for 2,095 extra-judicial executions and deaths under torture, and 1,102 "disappearances" of people who have never been found.

RAF Balloon Command was responsible for the administration and manning of the sites, which were fully operational by 23 January 1941.

(Under the legal doctrine of "command responsibility," a military commander is responsible for failing to prevent or punish war crimes committed by his subordinates).

The military task forces were under the control of the Joint Special Operations Command, the branch of the Special Operations Command that is responsible for counterterrorism.

These more frequent reviews are advocated, officials said, by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and by the military's Central Command, which is responsible for operations across the region, including those in Afghanistan.

"If you took every terrorist in Afghanistan, you could not make a light brigade," said Gen. Anthony C. Zinni, who until a year ago headed the United States Central Command, which is responsible for military operations in the Middle East and Southwest Asia.