Sentence examples for command of some from inspiring English sources

The bombings unfolded a day after an American general, David D. McKiernan, assumed command of some 52,000 NATO troops in the country.

They had not been trained for it, and if Falwell tried to explain it to them he would risk having them charge off under the command of some other general.

The body of the boy was discovered in the rural Panjwai district of Kandahar Province in the south, where the Taliban retain command of some areas despite regular clearing operations by American and Afghan forces.

This afternoon, the Northern Alliance announced the defection of Hashmi Habibi, a Taliban warlord stationed near Mazar-i-Sharif Mazar-i-Sharif Mazar-i-Sharifof some 1,500 soldiers.

And then, on the night of April 30 , 1975 at the command of some shadowy party official, they are all shot, butchered, rendered in a machine called "the Destruktor" and turned into sterile pellets to be fed to cattle.

In the final stages of the war, Colonel Berger took command of some seventeen hundred men in the improvised Alsace-Lorraine Brigade and helped lead them to victory against crack German troops in some of the last actions against the Nazis, including the battle for Strasbourg.

Then there is the challenge of assessing an applicant's command of English, since some Chinese families have been known to hire "agents" to write the application essay.

Hata's command consisted of some 400,000 men, most of whom were on Kyushu where an Allied invasion was correctly anticipated.

Drive north, and some of the poorest neighborhoods command some of the best views of the sea.

He has a command of politics that rivals some of the great New York party bosses.

The army took command of relief work and some foreign aid money arrived.