Sentence examples for divide command from inspiring English sources

The 21 documents include decrees issued by Czar Nicholas II and Marshal Georgy Zhukov, a top-secret paper on the reconstruction of Russian military airfields in the 1930s, and Catherine the Great's decree to divide command of forces in Poland during the 18th-century partitions of the country.

Code for the divide command (Command4).

The Japanese suffered heavy losses but their plan succeeded because of the Americans' divided command and their unbelievably poor communications.

Parade's End, BBC2 It helped to have read Ford Madox Ford's novel to be able to follow Tom Stoppard's adaptation – in which Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall and Adelaide Clemens divided command of the screen between them.

What is impermissible in both cases and institutions, however, because of its supposed dysfunctionality for governance, is a divided command or two heads.

Unlike the divided command of the French, the Austrians enjoyed unity of command.

The system of divided command... was not an ideal arrangement, but with men of goodwill it could have worked.

Air Force historian Alan Stephens later commented: "The system of divided command ... was not an ideal arrangement, but with men of goodwill it could have worked.

At the Battle of Leyte Gulf, the divided command brought the Allies to the brink of disaster when misunderstandings arose between Kinkaid and Halsey.

Jones did not actively seek the position of Chief of the Air Staff before being appointed in 1942, and his conflict with Bostock with whom he had been friends for 20 years was partly the result of a divided command structure, which neither man had any direct role in shaping.

Those members to whom the speech came as a surprise were genuinely alarmed, for they feared the return of the old bad times, of rival armies, divided commands, and administrative chaos.