Sentence examples for previously commanded from inspiring English sources

On 25 February 1944 Wing Commander Dick Cresswell, who had previously commanded No. 77 Squadron, was appointed No. 1 Wing's new wing leader.

This was also the first case of the rarity of an astronaut who had commanded a spaceflight mission subsequently flying as a non-commander, as Lovell had previously commanded Gemini XII.

The current commander of Air Combat Group is Air Commodore Anthony Grady, who had previously commanded No. 82 Wing, one of the three wings now under the control of Air Combat Group.

She noted that Soe Win, Burma's new PM, had previously commanded forces along the border with India.

He had previously commanded French armies in Guyenne in 1295 and led them in Flanders in 1297, 1299, 1300, 1303, and 1314.

In 1997, he paid nearly fifty million dollars at a private sale for Cézanne's "Still Life, Flowered Curtain and Fruit," which was almost twenty million dollars more than the art-ist had previously commanded at auction.

Previously, Burnside had commanded a wing that included both the I and IX Corps and now he was responsible only for the IX Corps.

The appointment was perceived as a demotion because the division was mostly formed from new Muslim recruits rather than the elite troops that Michael had commanded previously.

In the 1960s the People and the Sunday Mirror, previously the Sunday Pictorial, commanded sales of 5m-plus.

The eyewitness was a Yankee chaplain with the Federal Army when on Independence Day, July 4th 1863, it entered Vicksburg, the previously impregnable town that commanded the Mississippi River.

The system is advanced enough to understand contextual commands, too, including references made to previously mentioned commands and objects.