Sentence examples for to commander in from inspiring English sources

Hichens, now the recipient of two DSOs, three DSCs and two MIDs, was offered promotion to commander in command of HMS Bee at Weymouth, Dorset and a training post ashore.

Preble was promoted to commander in July 1862, and given command of the steam-sloop Oneida and her five sister ships, with orders to blockade the narrow entrance to Mobile Bay from Confederate shipping.

After the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (December 1941), Nimitz was elevated to commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, a command that brought both land and sea forces under his authority.

In 1968 he was promoted to commander in chief of Pacific forces.

He has gone from would-be Nobel Prize winner to commander in chief of chaos.

So what skills and perspectives might the wealthy businessman draw on as he transitions from CEO to commander in chief?

He was made second in command at the Cape of Good Hope in 1797, succeeding to commander-in-chief the following year, and he died while in command there in November 1798.

She was studying in London at the time of the coup and her father was promoted to commander-in-chief of the air force.

"We cannot promote someone to commander-in-chief who has made the world a more violent and dangerous place with every bad judgment she has made.

The soldier and military historian General Sir Anthony Farrar-Hockley, who has died aged 81, joined the British army as an under-age private during the second world war and rose through the ranks to commander-in-chief, Allied Forces, Northern Europe, as a full general.

The central function, the religion, of the US establishment media is adulation of those who wield power, especially military power as personified by the inaptly referred to "commander-in-chief". Brinkley conducted the interview in the Oval Office from his knees because - with some significant exceptions - that's the posture which US media culture assumes in the presence of the royal court.