Sentence examples for commanders today from inspiring English sources

Rebel commanders today shepherded visiting journalists through their territory, eager to show off their magnanimity.

Russian commanders today ordered the devastated city of Grozny emptied of its surviving residents and sealed.

General Wallace sent the message to Army commanders today after telling his officers that the "open display" of American flags in Iraq was "not appropriate".

"The enemy's intrusion and aggression in Kargil have now been decisively turned back," India's Prime Minister, Atal Behari Vajpayee, said in an address to army commanders today.

Russia punished several senior military commanders today for lapses that contributed to the crash of a military helicopter in Chechnya on Aug. 19, which killed 119 soldiers and civilians.

President Vladimir V. Putin sharply criticized his military commanders today, bluntly blaming dereliction of duty for the catastrophic crash of an overloaded transport helicopter on Monday near the main military base in Chechnya.

And Iraqi artillery shells that killed two senior Kurdish commanders last week came within 50 yards of hitting Americans.

GIVEN Nigeria's long record of military coups, President Umaru Yar'Adua's dismissal of his top military commanders last week might have looked a bit risky suicidal, even.

The revelation that the UN had held exploratory peace talks with Taliban commanders three weeks ago raised new hopes of a negotiated settlement to Afghanistan's gruelling insurgency.

But even that commitment is now being hotly debated in the coming parliamentary election, after an airstrike called in by German commanders this month.

But Mr. Karzai called on American and NATO commanders last month to stop their airstrikes in civilian areas of Afghanistan, and instead go after terrorist havens in neighboring Pakistan.