Sentence examples for not in command from inspiring English sources

The Commander-in-Chief is not in command.

In one respect, America's aeronautical myth has to wheedle its way around a flagrant contradiction: Air Force One carries the commander-in-chief, but he is not in command of the plane.

General McKiernan, as commander of the NATO force, the International Security Assistance Force, was technically not in command of the operation, which was conducted by Special Operations forces that are under a separate United States coalition command.

Why am I not in command of my own penis?

Unlike Eddy Merckx, Jacques Anquetil and Bernard Hinault, the true gods, he is not in command of the riders' pack.

O'Neill is not in command of either dramaturgy or psychology here; he can describe Con's self-delusion, but he can't penetrate it.

Whatever caused the co-pilot to begin his heavy use of the rudder, the cockpit voice recorder shows no sign that the captain who was in command, but not in control of the plane, objected.

His ramshackle style cements your impression that he's not quite in command of his material.

But it would be wrong to conclude that only those not wholly in command of their faculties make false confessions.

The Abkhaz president, Vladislav Ardzinba, has been ill and is not visibly in command of the government.

In his fifth year, he is choosing his opportunities — even if it appears he is not always in command of events.