Sentence examples for command of the state from inspiring English sources
Nevertheless, after returning to Kansas he promptly seized command of the state volunteer brigade, which he helped organize.
But in June 1861, having been given command of the state militia, he organized a small army of 5,000 pro-Confederate troops in southwestern Missouri.
Arrested in his Indiana home by the Union general in command of the state, Milligan had been active in a secret society friendly to the Confederate cause.
I've no inherent objection to the death penalty; I concur that certain actions are so evil that whoever commits them deserves death by command of the state.
After Connecticut and Massachusetts squabbled with the federal government over command of the state militias, newspapers and politicians proposed that the states should hold on to their federal tax revenues in order to pay for the militias themselves.
Also by this morning, the National Guard had activated more than 11,600 soldiers and airmen from 29 states who, for the moment, remain under the command of the state governors.
Individual companies were organized for each venture, but the companies were united by command of the States General in 1602 in order to reduce the costs and increase the security of such perilous and complex undertakings; the resulting United East India Company established bases throughout the Indian Ocean, notably in Ceylon (Sri Lanka), mainland India, and the Indonesian archipelago.
It does not imply that the duty to obey the state extends to all commands of the state and to all subjects.
And he states that submitting to the commands of the state is precisely a case of failing to act on one's critical assessment of a situation.
The instrumentalist may then argue that it is therefore wrong for the person not to take the commands of the state as authoritative, at least in many circumstances.
But now the instrumentalist could argue that obedience to the authoritative commands of the state may be necessary to acting justly in many instances.
