Sentence examples similar to commanders by the from inspiring English sources

A squadron commander by the time the war ended, he had survived being shot down several times.

"The Americans say that 'We were looking for a Taliban commander by the name of Yusuf,' " she said.

"We don't know a Taliban commander by the name of Noorul Aziz," said Haji Mirwais Khan, a tribal elder.

They noted that Mr. Belhaj was named commander by the five battalions of the so-called Tripoli Brigade, rather than by any civilian authority.

They took us from the checkpoint to Horlivka [a city in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk Oblast] to a commander by the name of "Devil".

Portugese-born painter Paula Rego was made a Dame Commander by the Queen today, and described the honour as a "wonderful experience".

He then chose the route of officer training, and had been promoted to the rank of lieutenant commander by the time the unit was sent into the rugged Tangi Valley of Wardak Province, just west of Kabul.

A company commander by the time Singapore fell in the spring of 1942, he and a small group from his unit escaped to sea in an aging sloop, hoping to land in what is now Sri Lanka.

Mr. Sam Bith pleaded not guilty and claimed in court he had already been relieved of his position as a regional commander by the Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot weeks before the train ambush.

Ling was elected "chief commander" by the student dissidents and played a leading role in the anti-government movement before it was brutally crushed by the military.

For his services as a corps commander, Browning was mentioned in despatches a second time, and was awarded the Legion of Merit in the degree of Commander by the United States government.