Sentence examples for nominal command from inspiring English sources
On Sept. 14, 1914, Emperor William II replaced Moltke as chief of staff, though he retained nominal command until the end of the year.
He went on to help capture Island Number Ten (about 55 miles [88 km] below Cairo, Ill ., in the Mississippi, but his injuries and additional ailments soon forced him to relinquish all but nominal command.
Grant's military abilities lay entirely in leading armies against the enemy, not in advising a superior or planning grand strategy, so it's no wonder he hated this position and later disparaged it as "a nominal command and yet no command".
In 1688 he received nominal command of the French armies in Germany, led by Vauban, but throughout his life he depended on the favours of his strong-willed father and acquired a reputation for timidity, subservience, and despite an education under the philosopher Bossuet general mediocrity.
This unit of postal workers was immediately subsumed into the Army when WW1 broke out, but the Army was only in nominal command.
In Dalmatia, Marmont, under the nominal command of Eugène, was fighting against General Stoichewich.
He returned to duty in October and the following month took over temporary command of the New Zealand Infantry Brigade when its nominal commander, Brigadier-General Francis Johnston, went on sick leave.
Only the city's police station remained under nominal central command.
Gen. Salim Idris, the head of the Western-backed rebels' nominal military command, the Supreme Military Council, denounced the initiative.
In 1913, responsibility for the reduced Australia Station passed to the new Royal Australian Navy under nominal Australian command, with the Australia Squadron of the Royal Navy's Australia Station coming to an end and its Sydney based depots, dockyards and structures being gifted to the Commonwealth of Australia.
Descendants of the first Ming emperor were created princes and given (typically nominal) military commands, annual stipends, and large estates.
