Sentence examples for numbers of commanders from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

At midday, after losing a number of commanders in the duels, Vahan ordered a limited attack with a third of his infantry forces to test the strength and strategy of the Muslim army and, using their overwhelming numerical and weaponry superiority, achieve a breakthrough wherever the Muslim battle line was weak.

Chains of command have become disjointed, they admit, with larger numbers of junior commanders filling the space left by senior figures such as Mullah Dadullah, their overall commander in Helmand, who was killed by British special forces last May.

They had fixers who spoke Arabic and could get the phone numbers of isis commanders and the G.P.S. coördinates of their various headquarters.

The US military knew everything there was to know about Iraqi Republican Guard units - even the phone numbers of their commanders.

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.