If Cao Cao was to have any hope of reuniting the sundered Han empire, he had to achieve naval control of the middle Yangtze and command the strategic naval base at Jiangling as a means of access to the southern region.
The end of World War One left Britain and France in command of the Middle East - as the defeated Ottoman Empire fell apart.
One is "The Command of the Ocean," the middle volume in N.A.M. Rodger's authoritative history of the British Navy.
Eggers's command of this middle-management landscape is so sure — and his interest in the battle between humanity and technology so insistent — that his book might almost be a DeLillo novel written for the iPhone Generation, though delivered by DeLillo's more openhearted and Midwestern nephew.
After the executions, Hancock was assigned command of the newly organized Middle Military Department, headquartered in Baltimore.
"The image embossed in the eye of voters" said Macharia Gaitho, a local columnist, "is of the hapless candidate who stands up on command, fastening the middle button of his coat as he steps forward to greet the crowd".
He is an aggressive type of player who will command the middle of the field … I get the feeling the group is on the verge of some really big performances and this will be one of them".
Karl Sineath Boston, Nov. 29, 2010 To the Editor: While classroom behavior and completion of homework often correlate with a student's command of the material, especially in middle school, this is not always the case.
(Post battle analysis of this and other early surface actions were to directly lead to the plotting crews and fighting the battle from the modern Command centers before the middle of 1943. ) Several minutes later, both forces visually sighted each other approximately simultaneously, but both Abe and Callaghan hesitated ordering their ships into action.
