Sentence examples for nominally command from inspiring English sources

The security forces nominally command 200,000 men, but can trust only about 40,000 of them.

The centurion thus nominally commanded about 100 men, and there were 60 centurions in a legion.

Albany under Governor Paterson is reminiscent of Afghanistan: nominally commanded by a weak leader, but with powerful warlords ascendant.

Thereafter, Ferdinand nominally commanded the Habsburg armies and in 1634 captured Regensburg and defeated the Swedes at the first Battle of Nördlingen in the same year.

Obama does not really want to supply large quantities of arms to the unknown forces nominally commanded by General Salim Idris, who himself says that half his troops are Islamist militias.

Sure, there are substantive operational differences in both systems, but the gist is that both are nominally command-and-control systems.

Their patron was Emperor Wilhelm II, who nominally commanded them.

Nominally commanded by Archduke Ferdinand, the army's real authority was Mack.

The army, nominally commanded by Władysław, but in practice under the experienced command of Chodkiewicz, took the fortress of Dorogobuzh on 11 October 1617.

He was 72 years old and, although having gout to the extent that he was carried on a litter, he nominally commanded his thirteenth military campaign.

Hancock nominally commanded 6,000 militiamen in the campaign, although he let the professional soldiers do the planning and issue the orders.