Sentence examples for take direct command from inspiring English sources

The PM's remarks, when speaking in Downing Street after he returned to work from his Portuguese holiday a day earlier than expected to take direct command of Britain's response to the Iraq crisis, prompted an intensification of calls for a return of parliament.

BANGKOK — Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra said Friday that she would take direct command of flood control in Thailand as Bangkok took the risky step of opening its floodgates and as criticism of the government mounted after days of disorganization and conflicting messages.

Things changed, though, a few days after Shiloh in mid-April, when Halleck arrived in Tennessee to take direct command of the 120,000 Union soldiers gathering in preparation for an assault against the beleaguered Confederates retreating south toward Corinth, just across the state line in Mississippi.

THE country's attention was riveted last week by the drama of the generals: Stanley McChrystal, whose indiscretions in Rolling Stone got him cashiered, and his boss, David Petraeus, who stepped in to take direct command of the troubled Afghanistan counterinsurgency effort.

While they were in church, Col. Al Lingo, the commander of the Alabama State Troopers, took direct command of 50 troopers and deployed them in the streets.

Eisenhower took direct command of all Allied ground forces on 1 September.

Gameplay at this stage takes place between two separate interfaces: the Terminator View Screen, where the player takes direct control of individual Marines, and the Planning Screen, where orders are issued to the Marines by clicking on command icons.

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After Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel was injured by Allied aircraft on 17 July, Kluge also took over direct command of Army Group B, the formation conducting the battle in Normandy.

Henrys took overall command, directing the forces from an armoured car within the Claudel column.

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