Sentence examples for number of commanders from inspiring English sources

Conflicting reports said an undetermined number of commanders had died.

Agamemnon would not be surprised to learn how strategically important Turkey is, even today, to a number of commanders in chief.

He and a number of commanders would have liked a feasibility study to be undertaken so that various options could be considered.

A number of commanders and senior enlisted advisers were fired, and a number of drill instructors have been suspended, as a result of the investigations, according to a statement by the US marine corps.

The stories in "Red Cavalry" — so close to the journalism he was simultaneously producing — incautiously named a number of commanders, not always in a flattering context, and two of them, Semyon Budyonny and Kliment Voroshilov, rose in Stalin's hierarchy.

Also impeding large-scale rebellion is the fact that an unknown number of commanders have become complicit in illegal activities.

For one thing, officials said they are evaluating whether to change the policy of locating command posts in the lobbies of burning high-rises, where large numbers of commanders could be suddenly lost.

The Taliban fighters interviewed said that the top commanders removed a number of older commanders and appointed younger commanders who were good fighters to prepare for operations in Afghanistan in the coming weeks.

An article on Thursday about President Obama's nomination of Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the assistant commandant of the Marine Corps, as the top American and NATO commander in Afghanistan, misstated, in some editions, the number of American commanders there since the start of the war in October 2001.

Mr. Rumsfeld opposes an increase in the overall number of regional commanders in chief, or cincs.

A number of military commanders feel themselves threatened by a commission investigating human-rights abuses.