Sentence examples for second in command of a from inspiring English sources
Like Trotsky he was a communist intellectual and second in command of a revolution that confounded political theory.
Muḥammad ʿAlī arrived there in 1801 as second in command of a 300-man Albanian regiment sent by the Ottoman government to oust the French from Egypt.
"As the second in command of a thriving civil rights group, Brown represented a fresh face, new ideas and a sense of dynamic young leadership at a time of dramatic change in the nation's capital," he says.
"Things are a lot better here," said First Lt. Matthew Cannon, 25, of St . Petersburg Fla., second in command of a company in the Second Armored Cavalry Regiment, which patrols the predominantly Shiite section of Baghdad called Sadr City.
The rebel, Edgar Gustavo Navarro, second in command of a unit of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, was killed in a gunfight near San Vicente del Caguán, 175 miles southwest of Bogotá.
I was the executive officer (second in command) of a mixed-gender logistical unit in the 173rd Airborne Brigade for seven months in and out of a combat zone, from March to October 2008.
The trouble was that he seemed to regard his deputy leadership of the party as the equivalent of being second-in-command of a battalion.
In World War II he was second-in-command of a regiment in Burma (Myanmar) and commanded a battalion in India.
It is based loosely on the true story of 16th-century conquistador Lupe De Aguirre (Kinski), the second-in-command of a Spanish force journeying down the Amazon in search of the mythical riches of El Dorado.
In the summer of 1756 Gage served as second-in-command of a failed expedition to resupply Fort Oswego, which fell to the French while the expedition was en route.
Mack soon became obsessed with Raniere's teachings, and would go on to become "second-in-command" of a secretive multi-level marketing scheme that allegedly branded women with a combination of Mack and Raniere's initials, and required members to hand over naked photos and damaging information as "collateral" to prove their commitment to secrecy.
