Sentence examples for commanding a group of from inspiring English sources

Despite the fact that Milonov appeared to be commanding a group of police in raiding the club, the party continued after they left.

Mr. Abdullah was commanding a group of four other soldiers atop a desolate hilltop on the Charotai line, an undulating series of outposts and encampments that run south from the border of Tajikistan.

Lieutenant Watling commanding a group of British troops guarding the ammunitions stores at the Quarter Guard was wounded, losing the stores in the process.

Lewis will command a group of veterans who can be as strong-willed as they are skilled.

After Pearl Harbor he commanded a group of photographers on the aircraft carrier Lexington in the Pacific, making naval propaganda and organizing photographic exhibitions.

He was the hero of a beloved Persian story, and in the 16th century, when the Mughal emperor Akbar was still a teenager, he commanded a group of artists to create the Hamzanama.

(In one, he reports that the district commissioner, "unlike the pure English blooded Englishman," had commanded a group of school children "to sneer, and jibe, and jeer" at him, enacting "a political mockery drama like that of, 'Ecce.

It's one of the more arresting scenes in the film when Marty Rathbun takes issue with the way Theroux commands a group of young actors who are playing Scientology recruits.

The following year 14-year-old Auguste commanded a group of 30 men who built a village on the west bank of the Mississippi at the junction of the Mississippi and Missouri rivers.

But Miss Park has never accepted her defeat and still commands a group of as many as 40 loyalists in parliament.Their mutual antagonism has long been fodder for the South Korean tabloid press.

A husky former French Army officer, Mr. Rouget, 51, commanded a group of foreign fighters during Ivory Coast's civil war in 2003, was convicted by a South African court of selling his military services and did a stint in the presidential guard of the Comoros Islands, an archipelago plagued by political tumult and coup attempts.