Sentence examples for time in command from inspiring English sources

At the siege of Charleroi, in 1693, he was for the first time in command of an infantry division.

Many of the names on the lists were not, at the time, in command of the huge readerships and critical acclaim that subsequently came their way.

"Once, when some mid-level officers were saying I was racist, Eddie Compass stood up at a meeting and backed me up," said Felix Loicano, who is white and was at the time in command of the Public Integrity Division, which investigated crooked cops.

Pinning her fourth star on her dress-blue uniform, then-Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates described Dunwoody, who has served in the Army for over 30 years much of the time in command positions as "a soldier and leader of the highest caliber".

Trenchard's time in command was characterized by three priorities.

His time in command was short as he managed to attach himself to the Hampshire Regiment.

Gorbachev was at that time second-in-command of the Soviet Union and tipped to take over when the ailing leader, Konstantin Chernenko, died.

Instead, I spoke to Fredrika's colleague, David Hilliard, a compact, gruff old man with a raspy voice, at one time fourth-in-command of "the greatest threat to the internal security" of the United States, according to America's top law enforcement agent, FBI director J Edgar Hoover.

But this Gallifrey is an altogether darker construction, the Time Lords in command of a formidable military of underlings, the civilian Gallifreyan peasants looking more and more like the planet's Have Nots, and a Lord President driven ever more ruthless with power.

He left the Philippines on 19 September 1930 and for a brief time was in command of the IX Corps Area in San Francisco.

As he circled Kweilin one final time in his command B-25, he said to Time magazine writer Theodore H. White (who was evacuating as well), "I'm going to write a book about this campaign.