Sentence examples for commanded from above from inspiring English sources

But in East Timor, the rogue military groups were clearly better organized and commanded from above.

Do we gradually not turn into silent slaves, ready to carry out any abomination on command from "above"?

The killers, carrying out orders that reached them through a chain of commands from above, speak of a deep remorse that Mr. Nuon Chea seems not to have experienced.

In his view, successful disaster response occurs not through command from above but through loose networks of formal organizations and informal professions that maintain broad agreement about shared goals and responsibilities.

He respects the ability of state and local governments to meet those standards, rejects the old ways of command and control from above".

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Ms. Johnson Sirleaf described her efforts to empower communities to fight the disease, a far more effective approach than commands from above.

An S.S. man who shot hundreds of Jews in the head or gassed thousands with Zyklon B was, by this account, not committing murder so long as he was acting on commands from above.

The Abu Nidal technique seemed clearly in evidence in the case of the attempted bombing of the El Al jetliner in London, where the key plotter, Nezar Hindawi, appears to have been living in London for several years, cultivating a relationship with the young Irish woman whom he exploited at the right time on commands from above.

"It is a dictate from above: If we command it, thou shalt have sex with underage women".

When he is filmed from above, twisting in the wind with a yawning gap below, some viewers' stomachs may command them to avert their eyes.