Sentence examples similar to secured complete command of from inspiring English sources

For the next hour, the Mexican army worked to secure complete control of the Alamo.

The Japanese had been unable to secure the complete command of the sea because the Russian naval squadrons at Port Arthur and Vladivostok made sorties and both sides suffered losses in the ensuing engagements.

He took complete command of the situation.

It was his command and Sea Shepherd captains are in complete command of their own ships.

She matters and must be heard, says an author in complete command of her own voice.

Betty Allen and Justino Diaz used their big voices ef fectively, if without complete command of the coloratura.

The technique is impeccable, with complete command of the Petrarchan sonnet form and its dramatic timing.

The author "has complete command of his intricate plot," Eden Ross Lipson said here last year.

Yet here she has complete command of the quartet's expressive resources.

In the end, the only thing she lost complete command of was her balance.

"The Iranians had complete command of the field," recalls one former U.S. official who was in Iraq at the time.