Sentence examples for headed a force from inspiring English sources

Under the name of Abu Zubair, Lieutenant Saad headed a force of some 120 Arab terrorists backed by about 400 renegade Kurds who were remnants of a defeated separatist group.

Flores, who had come from Salto, headed a force of 3,000 men, mostly cavalry.

They headed a force of roughly 2,500 guerrillas in the hilly terrain around Ajlun and Jerash.

She heads a force of just 13 agents, nine of them women, with one working patrol car, three automatic rifles and a pistol.

Mr. Gantamirov, who heads a force of pro-Russian policemen in the Chechen capital, Grozny, will serve as first deputy to Akhmad Kadyrov, who was named to head the civilian administration in Chechnya last month.

But in 1999, Mr. Gallagher headed a task force to address double counting, which suggests that the United Way had concerns about how widespread the practice might be.

But Janney, who headed a task force on the subject of drugs, called for more vigilance, with measures like camera surveillance of competitors on race day.

"The corruption in the industry has never been so complicated," said Elliot Spitzer, the New York attorney general, who headed a task force on boxing.

Mr. Kramer worked as a teacher in Lynbrook and for 22 years at Lakeville Elementary School in Great Neck, where she headed a task force on sexual equality and organized the district's first Susan B. Anthony Week, a celebration of women's history.

"In my view, 50% of garment factories are located on premises which are not safe," said senior government official Mainuddin Khondker, who headed a task force to inspect garments factories following last November's fire at Tazreen Fashions.

In 1208, Strez headed a Serbian force which seized much of the Vardar valley from Bulgaria.