Sentence examples for senior command of from inspiring English sources

The entire senior command of the separatist group was killed, along with an untold number of Tamil civilians who had been used as human shields by the Tigers.

The rise to senior commands of three generals with experience of irregular warfare in Afghanistan and the Middle East has set in motion a revolution in Canadian military thinking.

Helbig received the order to leave his Geschwader to serve as a courier, flying vital documents and secret orders from the Flensburg government to the senior command staff of Generalfeldmarschall Ferdinand Schörner, the new Commander-in-Chief of the German Army (Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres), in Czechoslovakia.

Ten years later, in September 1996, the head of the major crimes unit in Nottinghamshire, Detective Superintendent Peter Coles, resigned in protest at similar cheating and made a formal complaint against his own senior command, accusing them of "organisational dishonesty".

In the time between the attack on the World Trade Center and July 19, 213 members of the senior command, those in the rank of lieutenant and above, have left the job, a number roughly 60percentt greater than retired in the same period last year, according to Fire Department records and union officials.

Later, Graham filled a range of senior command, staff and diplomatic roles in Australia and overseas, including the position of Deputy Chief of the General Staff (DCGS), before retiring in 1977.

The number of lieutenants taking the captain's test has dropped precipitously, a development union officials cite as evidence that supervisors are avoiding the pressures of senior command.

US authorities have been under domestic pressure to act against LeT and its senior command following a series of trials in the US during which the organisation's role in the Mumbai attacks and other acts of violence became clear.

Under the heading of "politics", the document called on trusts to assess three questions before declaring a major incident: Is there increasing involvement of senior command and control tiers, political involvement or excessive media coverage?

The leader, Selvarasa Pathmanathan, more commonly known as K. P., took over the leadership of the Tigers after the group's longtime leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, was killed along with most of his senior command in a bloody last stand against Sri Lankan troops on a narrow strip of beach in the northeastern corner of the island in May.

Selvarasa Pathmanathan, more commonly known by the nom du guerre K.P., took over the leadership of the Tigers after the group's longtime leader, Vellupillai Prabhakaran, was killed along with most of his senior command in a bloody last stand against Sri Lankan troops on a narrow strip of beach in the northeastern corner of the island in May.