Sentence examples for commander led from inspiring English sources

A return to the Mediterranean for five months in 1943, as second-in-command of the Beirut submarine base in his new rank of commander, led to a meeting with the writer Anita Leslie, whom he married in 1949.

In 1999 Shamil Basayev, a long-serving hardline Chechen commander, led his guerrilla fighters on a bloody foray into neighbouring Dagestan.

Gen. Yuval Halamish, a former intelligence commander, led an investigation that involved scores of interviews of Israeli soldiers and Palestinian witnesses as well as reviewing military videotape and photographs.

In April, another airstrike in Kunar was thought to have killed at least 10 children after a foiled attempt to capture a Taliban commander led to a sustained gun battle between special forces troops and insurgents.

The credibility of the British-backed rebel forces in Libya has been thrown into doubt after the shock assassination of a top military commander led to claims that the movement is enmeshed in a bloody internal feud.

A US tank commander led his soldiers in a Native American war dance and told them to take the US flags off their gun turrets, saying: "We will be entering Iraq as an army of liberation, not domination".

The official said that the operation's commanders, led by Lt. Gen. Charles Bouchard of Canada, could ask for additional aircraft or different types of aircraft as they needed them.

Nato commanders led by General David Petraeus have set out the risks of withdrawing too many troops too soon, and warned Obama there has been no noticeable dividend from the death of the al-Qaida leader.

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9 — Poor training and a variety of errors by police commanders led officers to turn on demonstrators and journalists at a pro-immigration rally here in May, the Los Angeles Police Department concluded in a report issued Tuesday.

He has positioned Rwanda as the "Switzerland" through which the raw materials hacked from Congo's mines would travel to world markets, and has demanded the demobilisation of a mainly Hutu militia in Congo, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, some of whose commanders led the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

On the battlefields, the king's commanders led the troops.