Sentence examples for distant command from inspiring English sources
They will make it possible to detect enemy vessels and mines and allow submarines to link up with surface ships, aircraft and distant command centres, says Vernon Clark, America's former chief of naval operations.
The Army allowed the brothers to serve in the same elite Ranger platoon, a decision that led to the fatal snafu that put Kevin and Pat in separate patrols, on a spurious mission, ordered from a distant command post, to save a disabled vehicle, while exposing men to danger.
A variety of robotic cannons and missile launchers could deliver the firepower, supplementing their built-in intelligence with help from a distant, manned command center.
(During Glendale, McClellan was five miles (8 km) away behind Malvern Hill, without telegraph communications and too distant to command the army.
One imagines commanding, distant doctors in the Mr Rochester mould.
During the short, decisive Prussian campaign against Austria in 1866, field telegraph enabled Count Helmuth von Moltke, the Prussian commander, to exercise command over his distant armies.
For example, Jazz can fire a grappling hook to reach high or distant places, Optimus Prime can command the massive Metroplex, and the Combaticons have the ability to combine into the Decepticon Bruticus.
Godley was a distant and remote divisional commander, not popular with most soldiers of his command.
Surely, this commandment that I command you today is not beyond your understanding, nor is it distant.
Grant is also very distant from her team; "she commands so she is not their pal but, at the same time, the guys are like her family.
