Sentence examples for retain the command from inspiring English sources

"The Taliban retain the command and military planning infrastructure to put together complex and sophisticated attacks," said Stephen Biddle, a professor at George Washington University with expertise in defense studies.

The United States will retain the command in fiercely contested eastern Afghanistan, across from Pakistan's lawless tribal areas, where Richard C. Holbrooke, the special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, has said that Osama bin Laden and important Qaeda leaders reside.

That, as long as the latter should retain the command of his army, no just reason could exist that he [Caesar] should disband his troops and expose himself to the insults of his enemies.

Pinochet retained the command of the armed forces, and when he stepped down from that role, in 1998, he retained a senatorship-for-life, which gave him immunity from prosecution.

His contradictions and his failings are all human and all common, which is why the hallucinatory last day of his life will always retain the power to command not just our pity but our respect too.

"Willy Loman is trying to write his name on a cake of ice on a hot July day". His contradictions and his failings are all human and all common, which is why the hallucinatory last day of his life will always retain the power to command not just our pity but our respect too.

They told him he would retain the appearance of command, but that Langlais would exercise it.

Godley would retain command of the NZEF for the duration of the war, making regular reports to James Allen, the New Zealand Minister of Defence.

Of particular note was an early conflict with Georgia's state government, which insisted that the governor of that state retain command of the state's militia during military engagements.

According to Gilchrist et al. [ 10], in retention tasks, words tend to be grouped; they are not processed separately, and the same applies to the retaining command of the propositions.

He promised the UN that a French general would retain command of the force.