Sentence examples for commanders because of from inspiring English sources

Had the move against Pearl Harbor with carrier-based aircraft been ruled impossible by Japan's senior commanders because of some American defensive innovation, those very resourceful men in Tokyo would doubtless have come up with another way to achieve their purpose, for the Japanese government had decided that it was vital to cripple our power in the Pacific.

The views of the general public remained mixed on the matter, and eventually Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson stated that Patton must be retained as a commander because of the need for his "aggressive, winning leadership in the bitter battles which are to come before final victory".

According to his commander-in-chief "because of the extraordinary troops and civilians who risk and lay down their lives to keep us free, the United States is more secure".

Justice Scott will presumably take a dim view of the impartiality of Fiji's courts.The suspension of Mr Mara and the former land forces commander in October came because of allegations of a planned counter-coup.

Gen. Wesley K. Clark accused the Bush administration yesterday of "wrecking NATO" with a unilateral policy on Iraq, and he angrily denounced as a smear a former colleague's statement that he was replaced as NATO commander early because of questions of character.

He said commanders had been reluctant to send Humvees off bases in Afghanistan "because of the problems with survivability".

He noted that the attack had not been reported accurately or rapidly to senior commanders, most likely because of improperly placed loyalties.

Each time, American military commanders backed out because of worries that the Afghans might release Taliban prisoners, who would return to the battlefield and endanger American soldiers.

Security analysts said Mr. al Oshan's killing was as significant a blow to the group as the death of any field commander because the Web magazine was the most important vehicle for disseminating the group's ideas.

He is called Commander, he says, because of the war and because he leads soldiers, but he retains a social rank equivalent to or greater than that of his forefathers.

In 1983 the West German defense secretary sacked Günter Kiessling, the deputy supreme NATO commander for Europe, because of rumors that Mr. Kiessling was gay; at the time, this was considered a possibility for blackmail.