Sentence examples for command the first from inspiring English sources

It's still not clear which company is going to get to command the first mission to carry humans into low-Earth orbit on a spacecraft, but according to NASA, the vehicles chosen will either be Boeing's CST-100 or SpaceX's Dragon.

In September, Bradley, who was Patton's junior in both rank and experience, was selected to command the First United States Army forming in England to prepare for Operation Overlord.

In September, Bradley Patton's junior in both rank and experience was selected to command the First United States Army that was forming in England to prepare for Operation Overlord.

The American military is organizing a new Africa Command, the first American combatant command dedicated solely to Africa.

Struggling for command the first two months of this season, Pettitte has averaged 16.8 pitches an inning, an unusually high number.

Two frames are created, and the background color of each is set with an individual attribute command (the first using an attribute list and the second a dictionary).

The team does command the fifth highest ticket prices in the NFL.

In the UK, where sales of malbec rose by 40% in 2011, Argentine wines command the second-highest average price per bottle, after New Zealand.

Patton's final assignment was to command the Fifteenth United States Army based in Bad Nauheim.

He commanded the First Battalion of the Royal Irish Regiment.

In 1861 Watie raised and commanded the first volunteer Cherokee regiment the Cherokee Mounted Rifles mustered into the Confederate Army.