Sentence examples for military commandant from inspiring English sources

While Russian officials said negligence was a factor, they said the poor security was the fault of local commanders, not Gen. Ivan Babichev, the military commandant of Chechnya.

Yet another truck exploded near the office of the military commandant in Urus-Martan.

Hundreds of rebels fought their way into the city last week and killed the Russian military commandant there before retreating.

They also received an amnesty certificate signed by the Russian military commandant for the district, Y. A. Naumov.

Nonetheless, early in June a group of about a dozen Americans seized a large herd of horses from a Mexican military commandant.

After the Russian military seized Vedeno with great fanfare in February, Mr. Basayev's palatial red brick house became the headquarters for the Russian military commandant there.

With her trim frame and military uniform, Major Arena, commandant of the company, presented a friendly but disciplined demeanor to her fellow troopers and to visitors during a recent pleasure ride at the unit's 65-acre grounds on the site of the former Fairfield Hills Hospital in Newtown.

The Spanish governor appointed Boone "syndic" (judge and jury) and commandant (military leader) of the Femme Osage district.

The project significantly affected the daily life of Kaunas residents, and there were plans to detach the fortress into an independent administrative unit governed by a military board; its commandant wrote that "There is no city of Kaunas, there is only the Fortress of Kaunas".

In 1854 Napoleon III granted the request of local merchants for a greater French military presence and appointed Commandant Louis-Léon-César Faidherbe governor.

There, they fraternised with a squad of military police led by Commandant Reyes (Leonor Varela), a lady with some tantalising history with Coulson.