Sentence examples for commanded about from inspiring English sources

Military engineers were deployed a few days after the war began at the port of Umm Qasr, adjacent to Kuwait in southeastern Iraq, said Rear Adm. Charles R. Kubic, who commanded about 5,000 engineers in the First Marine Expeditionary Force Engineer Group, many of them Seabees, and who would later work on the irrigation system near Babylon.

Twenty years later, on August 24 , 1814 James Madison briefly commanded about 5,000 US soldiers against the invading British army at the battle of Bladensburg.

Under the hammer they commanded about £1m each.

The centurion thus nominally commanded about 100 men, and there were 60 centurions in a legion.

"A specialised investigating judge in Brussels specialised in terrorism commanded about 10 search warrants," Mr Van Der Sypt said.

Anita Larsen, a Unilever spokeswoman, said Unilever commanded about 13percentt of the fabric cleaning market in North America last year.

Mrs. Clinton commands about twice as many superdelegates as Mr. Obama, according to an analysis by The New York Times.

Even that day is still a long ways away, with Yahoo commanding about twice as much search market share in the U.S. as Bing.

With annual revenues of about A$16 billion, Telstra commands about 80% of Australia's telecoms market.

The latest polls suggest that AK again commands about 50% of the vote.

A mint condition copy of Action Comics No. 1 would command about $3 million, Fishler said.