Sentence examples for to commandant from inspiring English sources

Forbes felt so humiliated by the events that he retreated from command in all but name, surrendering de facto control to Commandant Raaff.

Brunos father, strict and remote but not without a flicker of paternal tenderness, has been promoted to commandant.

The next year, as a brigadier, he took charge of 3 Commando Brigade, rising to commandant general in 1987.

Last November, he believed he had discovered a plot against him and arrested, tortured and killed soldiers loyal to Commandant Anselme Masasu Nindaga who had days earlier made a subversive speech at a reunion for 1,200 kadogos in Kinshasa.

According to Mietek Pemper, a Polish Jew conscripted as secretary to Commandant Amon Göth of the concentration camp Plaszow, no single person could have kept in his head all the information that appeared on the list, including prisoners' numbers, dates of birth and professions.

"The name is a bit unfortunate and commissioner Lloyd is uncomfortably close to Commandant Lassard [from the Police Academy films of the 1980s and 1990s] but apart from that I think it's probably something we would welcome," he said.

Koch was called to report to his commandant, who ordered him to buy a new pair of boots.

She was told to write to the commandant if she thought the film was wrong, but did not do so for fear that Mr. Dunlap would learn of her complaint and perhaps file suit.

Once this had concluded, they were split into smaller groups and taken to various Berlin stations where they boarded a train in the direction of Katowice with orders to report to the commandant of Auschwitz, a place which Gröning had not heard of before.

On October 9, 1901, Sebree was promoted to captain and received orders to travel to American Samoa to take command of the and to be commandant of the United States Naval Station Tutuila.

At a border post on the way to Paraguay, Cacambo and Candide speak to the commandant, who turns out to be Cunégonde's unnamed brother.