Sentence examples for floating command from inspiring English sources
Gen. Benjamin Butler's floating command post.
A floating command center will be set up on the Coast Guard cutter Bainbridge Island.
Then along came Ward Brewer II, 45, an American entrepreneur who drafted a plan after 9/11 to recycle World War II-era ships as floating command posts during disasters in the United States.
In re-engineering its approach to the city's waterways and more than 400 miles of shoreline, the department is adding large and small vessels to its fleet of fireboats in New York Harbor, and employing new technology that can turn a boat into a floating command and control center to assess, or to direct the response to, potential waterborne challenges, like rescues or terrorism attacks.
Lego's version of the floating command and control vessel used by Marvel's fictional global super spy and defence agency is made up of just under 3,000 pieces, and includes small quintets, fighter jets and even runway support vehicles, as well as five mini figures and 12 microfigures designed to match the Helicarrier's scale.
But in the Arctic, where shore stations are scarce and satellite coverage is hard to come by, icebreakers serve as floating command-and-control platforms, which handle everything from search-and-rescue missions to emergency communications via oil spill response.
It became the first commercially available computer to use fully automatic floating point arithmetic commands.
But it was still floating when Lieutenant Commander Houck, in command of more than 40 planes on the carrier Yorktown, went aloft in his Hellcat fighter.
Towards the end of the war he took command of the ironclad floating battery HMS Glatton but arrived in the Black Sea after the peace had been agreed.
His barn owl, trailing jesses and responding to his commands, floated above the heads of the crowd, gleaming white in the drifting smoke.
Thus ministers floating even a half-formed idea tend to command the front page, because they could feasibly turn it into reality.
