Sentence examples for headed the army from inspiring English sources

Martin Balza, who headed the army until late 1999, has publicly expressed his regret for human-rights abuses.

Prabowo Subianto, leader of his own party, Gerindra, for example, headed the army special forces under Suharto and was married to the president's daughter.

Raúl Castro has long headed the army, which runs many tourist businesses.The government says it will spend $185m over the next three years to improve the island's few marinas and golf courses.

General Sir Mike Jackson, who headed the army during the war in Iraq, described as "nonsensical" the claim by the former US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld that US forces "don't do nation-building".

David R. Franz, a biologist who formerly headed the Army defensive biological lab at Fort Detrick, Md., is on the board and said its decision to intervene, made in the fall, was quite reasonable.

"I want science to be as open and transparent as possible," said David R. Franz, a biologist who formerly headed the Army defensive biological lab at Fort Detrick, Md. "My concern is that we don't give amateurs — or terrorists — information that might let them do something that could really cause a lot of harm".

Gen. Gershon Yitzhak, who heads the army forces in Hebron.

Aside from heading the army and state, and being Commander of the Faithful, he appoints and fires ministers, governors and judges, and issues or vetoes laws.

In 1963 Suharto was routinely appointed to head the army strategic command, a Jakarta-based force used to respond to national emergencies.

Sharif, only now realizing he had made the wrong choice to head the army, set in motion a plan to replace Musharraf with another general.

Alvarez Thomas appointed Belgrano to head the army at Rosario, but shortly afterwards Thomas resigned.