Sentence examples for commanded the construction from inspiring English sources
After consolidating power, he commanded the construction across the north of roughly three thousand miles of changcheng.
In 1969, Chairman Mao commanded the construction of a second Beijing beneath the surface of the original city, designed to accommodate all six million of its then inhabitants so that if nuclear war did kick off, folk would still have somewhere to hang out and play Mah Jong while the rest of us burnt to death in a shower of atomic rain.
In 1969, Chairman Mao commanded the construction of a second Beijing beneath the surface of the original city, designed to accommodate all six million of its then inhabitants, so that if nuclear war did kick off, folk would still have somewhere to hang out and play Mah Jong while the rest of us burnt to death in a shower of atomic rain.
Other senior appointments included the contingent seconds-in-command, Lieutenant colonels Kevin Pippard (1ASC) and Ken Gillespie (2ASC), and the officers commanding the 17th Construction Squadron, Majors David Crago (1ASC) and Brendan Sowry (2ASC).
Hardee commanded the left.
The Conseil Superieur de la Marine (CSM), the French naval high command, ordered the construction department to prepare designs for a 23500 MT ship armed with twelve 340 mm guns in six twin gun turrets.
Although some people inside and outside the university disagree, the activists say that Emily Lloyd -- the person they see as their greatest ally inside Columbia, the administrator of the neighborly approach the university first displayed in the 1997 dorm construction -- no longer commands the same influence under Mr. Bollinger's leadership.
Journalists would be expected to dive headfirst into such headline-grabbing allegations, especially when tied to an estimated $50 billion construction project that will command the world's attention on February 7.
Thus, in the case of the straight line the intellect commands a construction of a line in pure intuition according to the concept of straight.
The command center was the construction coordinator and reported to then-Gov.
Yet none of the data in any of the spreadsheets previously provided by the command indicated that the construction had been canceled.
