Sentence examples for command to withdraw from inspiring English sources

After his troops had fasted and prayed three days, he opened the Bible in their presence, apparently at random, and read a passage that could be interpreted only as a divine command to withdraw.

He vowed that Right Sector troops would remain in Shryrokyne and would reject any command to withdraw.

Nasser ordered the military's high command to withdraw the Egyptian Army from Sinai to bolster the canal's defenses.

You'll never be-lieve who I'm talking to – yes, right now,' and simultaneously rapping Mukti smartly on the forehead, which as he explained sotto voce to Busner, was the command for him to withdraw.

In order to man the Albanian battlefront, the Greek command was forced to withdraw forces from Eastern Macedonia and Western Thrace because Greek forces could not protect Greece's entire border.

Thanks to the rapidity of the Afrika Korps' retreat from Wādī al-ʿAkārīt, the German high command had an opportunity to withdraw its forces from the rump of Tunisia to Sicily, but it chose instead to defend the indefensible rump.

Approximately 400 North Koreans now overran the regimental command post, compelling Freeman to withdraw it about 600 yards.

There is one in this office who would give a good deal to watch the effect on Rear-Admiral Plunkett, the man who commanded "What Price Glory" to withdraw.

Most significantly, artillery from Ticonderoga would be dragged across Massachusetts to the heights commanding Boston Harbor, forcing the British to withdraw from that city.

The Siberian regiment entered the fort and forced the crews of carronades, commanded personally by General Sowiński, to withdraw within the walls surrounding the church.

Central command, in Moscow, kept imploring him to withdraw to Russian territory.