Sentence examples for former command from inspiring English sources

Pétain was promoted to commander of Army Group Centre, and his former command was divided, with Robert-Georges Nivelle taking charge of French forces on the right bank and Henri Berthelot leading the defense on the left.

Upon being ransomed, he held his former command until recalled to England late in 1431.

Universal healthcare was one of the country's founding commitments; citizens see hospitals and schools as the last remaining benefits of the former command economy.

Tashkent was the former command post of the Soviet Union's Turkestan regional command, and a collection point for electronic eavesdropping on China and the Indian Ocean region.

Next to the chair, a knife with a six-inch blade had been jammed into the bark of a tree by the battalion's former command sergeant major, James E. Booker.

Not far from one of Colonel Gaddafi's former command posts, Osama Fazari and his family have been hunkered down in their homes for a week, without much power and with no water.

Third-world nations, former command-and-control economies and socialist governments alike are all exhorted to let the laws of supply and demand run their course.

Toward the end of the War, Herbert served as personal pilot and aide to General Holland M. Smith, former Commanding General, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific.

He is survived by his father, Air Marshal Sir John Sutton, former Commanding Officer of 249 Squadron in Germany in the 1960s, who after Allied Tactical Air Force postings in Germany became Assistant Chief of Defence Staff in 1982, the year of the Falklands War, then AOC-in-C, RAF Support Command from 1986 until 1989, and finally, from 1990 until 1995, Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey.

Even though the former commands a price premium of 30% to 50%, he says, he doesn't plan to expand the acreage he devotes to it.

The squadron consisted of Southampton, and two of MacBride's former commands, Seaford, and Cruizer.