Sentence examples for fighting for command from inspiring English sources

It's not just a matter of the candidates fighting for command of swing voters in the center, or "shoring up the base" on their left or their right.

Mr Kabbah's desire for a court that focuses on Mr Sankoh and senior RUF figures is understandable, as some of the people implicated in atrocities are fighting for him and command large numbers of soldiers at company level and at brigade level in one case.

Now Summerhill is fighting for its life under the command of Zo Readhead, Neill's daughter, a lanky farmer's wife of 53 who attended Summerhill in her father's day.

"The crusade has already started against Islam and Muslims with cartoons of our beloved Prophet," wrote Mr. Shahzad, who went on to quote verses from the Koran as proof of what "Allah commands about fighting for Islam".

He commanded volunteers fighting for Croatia in the early 1990s, but his battlefield experience was marred by claims that he oversaw the murder of a Briton and a Swiss citizen.

Carson -- fresh from commanding New Mexico volunteers fighting for the Union in the Civil War -- led an expedition in 1863-64 againsthehe Navajos.

In the first Chechen war, from 1994 to 1996, he commanded a rebel force fighting for independence against Russian forces.

His command lasted through months of bitter fighting for small tactical advantages while armistice negotiations dragged on.

He spent over a decade fighting for the Farc, eventually becoming an explosives expert who commanded up to 54 guerrillas.

Turkey's main secular opposition parties and military high command both disowned the plotters, who claimed they were fighting for secularism.

The sweep by Serbian troops under Mr. Milosevic's command is the latest attempt to crush the Kosovo guerrillas fighting for independence.