Sentence examples for commandos control from inspiring English sources
Ukrainian commandos control two of them: the ground and second floors.
When I arrived in March, the part of Samarra under American and commando control -- the City Hall and a Green Zone around it -- was a small parcel of land ringed with a phalanx of concrete barriers, barbed wire and shoot-to-kill lookouts.
By that afternoon No. 4 Commando controlled the town.
A former Stirling university student from the west end of Glasgow, he was seen broadcasting for the satellite station PressTV as the commandos took control of the ship.
Afghan police and commandos seized control of the hotel after a bloody six-hour battle (with help from NATO air strikes).
By the time army commandos regained control of the compound 141 people, most of them teenagers and younger children, had been killed.
JERUSALEM -- At least nine pro-Palestinian activists were killed and dozens were wounded aboard an aid flotilla bound for the Gaza Strip when Israeli naval commandos seized control of the boats in international waters early Monday.
MUMBAI, India — Indian commandos took control of the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower, the last nest of terrorist resistance, on Saturday morning, after a lengthy assault that left three terrorists dead and sections of the hotel in flames, the head of the commando unit said in a televised news conference.
Chiluba faced another weak coup attempt on October 28 , 1997 when a group of Zambian army commandos seized control of the national radio station in Lusaka and proclaimed that they had toppled Chiluba's government; within hours, however, the group was overpowered by Zambian troops loyal to the president.
On 3 November the commandos gave control of Flushing to the 52nd (Lowland) Infantry Division and prepared to move by sea to support the rest of the brigade at Westkapelle.
Marines from 40 Commando took control of an oil pumping station and two oil platforms - long booms which reach out into the sea to load up supertankers with crude oil.
