Sentence examples for formerly commanded from inspiring English sources

In September 1918, he was given command of HMS Pangloss, a Q-ship operating in the Mediterranean and which was formerly commanded by Commander Gordon Campbell.

Cornwallis, whose army took a longer amount of time to cross the Catawba, wanted to prevent Greene's forces from withdrawing quickly and being able to regroup, and so he ordered Colonel Tarleton, the commander of the British Legion, to pursue the militia formerly commanded by Davidson.

Mr. White formerly commanded an elaborate political machine with tight control over Boston's neighborhoods.

The comments by General Vines, who formerly commanded Special Operations Forces in Somalia and all American troops in Afghanistan, offer perhaps the bluntest public assessment yet by a senior military officer about the challenges facing the American-led military coalition and the fledgling Iraqi government in the coming months.

An expert on high power microwaves, he formerly commanded the Malan nuclear test base in Xinjing, China, and was deputy director of the dissolved PLA General Armaments Department.

2 Since the people of Athens desired for the glory of it to take Potidaea by storm,19 they sent Hagnon there as general with the army which Pericles had formerly commanded.

He was succeeded by Major General Curtis E. LeMay, formerly commander of the other arm of the Twentieth Air Force, the Twentieth Bomber Command of B-29s in India and China.

Several combatant commanders, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. William J. Crowe Jr., formerly commander in chief of Pacific forces, have testified that they lacked sufficient control of forces supposedly under their command.

Walter Manzke, formerly of Patina, commands the stove.

Mattarella is expected to ask Cottarelli to form a government, but he will struggle to gain the approval of parliament with the Five Star Movement (M5S) and the the far-right Lega (formerly the Northern League) commanding a majority in both houses.

Once your child begins to question formerly innocuous commands, challenge your knowledge, and thwart all pressure to behave, recognize that you are now dealing with an adolescent.