Sentence examples for they took command from inspiring English sources

In 1887 they took command of the Salvation Army forces in the United States.

"It was a true sanctuary," he writes of his subjects' favorite club, a place where "they took command, they reigned".

At the request of John Harrington, the outgoing chief executive, the new Red Sox owners waited until they took command of the team to make moves.

In a battle of ground versus air and flair versus brawn, the young Brazilians were not intimidated by Norway's 17 fouls as they took command of Group B with their second consecutive three-goal victory.

They generals said that they thought the military was out of control when they took command after a coup in 1979, but that they tried to send the message that the killing of civilians was not permissible.

So, while they took command in the middle, I went to a daytime festival on Clapham Common where, amazingly – or not amazingly at all, in retrospect – everything just worked.

New army chiefs are usually announced six to eight weeks before they take command, giving them time to prepare for the job.

Democrats, however, have made it clear that they are determined to address the issue of medical-records privacy once they take command of both houses of Congress next month.

When they are happy they take command and bring the spotter/First squad forward in the same manner used earlier.

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In 1995, soon after the present triumvirate took command they backed the Gaullist prime minister, Edouard Balladur, for president when Minc was one of his advisers and played up corruption allegations against Mr Chirac, the eventual winner.