Sentence examples for nominally commanded from inspiring English sources

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.

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

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

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

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

Nominally, the khans commanded a formidable force of mounted warriors, but, in reality, they depended on the loyalty of the beys and batyrs.

Although a series of French generals were nominally in command of the siege operation, the man responsible for its success was the previously unknown artillery officer Napoleon Bonaparte.

According to answers given to parliamentary questions, British military officials – who are nominally in command of the atoll – re-designated another building as a prison three months after the September 11 attacks.