Sentence examples for direct command over from inspiring English sources

The defense presented a handful of witnesses, some of whom testified that Mr. Rios Montt did not have direct command over military units in the region.

Some of the handful of defense witnesses testified that General Ríos Montt did not have direct command over military units in the region.

"The supreme commander of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization anization — who is an American officer and probably always will be — should have direct command over a NATO nuclear force, trained, ready and equipped on European soil.

After Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel was injured by Allied aircraft on 17 July, Kluge also took over direct command of Army Group B, the formation conducting the battle in Normandy.

B. To preside over, to have the care or management of, to superintend, direct, command (syn. praesum).

The Dubai Police Force, founded in 1956 in the locality of Naif, has law enforcement jurisdiction over the emirate; the force is under direct command of Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai.

Although he was removed from direct command in 1973, General Giap remained minister of defense, overseeing North Vietnam's final victory over South Vietnam and the United States when Saigon, the South's capital, fell on April 30 , 1975

Every man under Custer's direct command died that day.

The reserve tank forces, given the name Panzer Group West and commanded by Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, came nominally under Rundstedt's direct command.

But their patients recovered some feeling and direct command as well.

But Shackleton, despite shipwreck and starvation, never lost a man under his direct command.