Sentence examples for in command as from inspiring English sources

Those include a smaller number of hard-core Arabs, like Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahri, Al Qaeda's second in command, as well as a larger number of Uzbeks, Tartars and Tajiks who have influence them to take on new agendas, Pakistani security officials familiar with the region said.

His turn against the Pakistan state, intelligence analysts say, was seen as a direct result of his close alliance with Al Qaeda, in particular with Ayman al-Zawahri, the second in command, as well as the powerful Afghan Taliban leader, Sirajuddin Haqqani, who also has a close working connection to Al Qaeda.

Perhaps this was part of the strategy, to seem aloof, or "in command" as senior Tories kept saying.

In spring 593, Priscus was re-appointed in command as commander of the cavalry in Thrace, with Gentzon leading the infantry.

Conceded an admirer, "Jackson, silent and reserved, never taking counsel even with his next in command as to his plans, most rigid and exacting as a commander, had not yet acquired that wonderful control over his soldiers which a few months later would have rendered such murmuring impossible".

In May, soldiers took the army's second in command as a hostage to protest poor pay and living conditions.

Alexander started playing piano at age 3 and looks just as in command at the keys as he is on a committee-room dais.

He described Captain Sullivan, who was the Police Department's second-in-command, as "very dedicated to both his job and his family".

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Robinson, now retired, would not be thought of as someone who always took a completely respectful view of people he worked for, having got into the habit at one point in his Times career of calling the executive editor a "borderline psychotic" and describing the managing editor, the second-in-command, as "a man who couldn't find kitty litter in a cat box".

Without a second-in-command as a sounding board, his poor judgment ultimately got him booted from his own company.