Sentence examples for unity of command from inspiring English sources

In the military you have total unity of command.

Despite the advantages of consular collegiality, in military emergencies unity of command was sometimes necessary.

For nearly two years the Federal armies lacked effective unity of command.

"We need unity of command," said one American official who is sympathetic to the general's position.

To achieve unity of command against the crusaders, Baybars united Muslim Syria and Egypt into a single state.

Ms. Collins said she deplored the "sluggish initial response that was characterized by a confusing lack of unity of command".

The manifestly superior military and naval technology of the Portuguese and the greater unity of their command enabled them, in the years that lay ahead, to mount assaults upon the ill-defended city-states.

Deprived of the official support of the main opposition party, New Democracy, which wants snap elections instead, Papandreou is relying on two small parties well to the right of his ruling socialist Pasok party to form a "government of national unity" with command of 180 seats in parliament.

The lessons encountered in Afghanistan and Iraq at the strategic level inform our understanding of national security decisionmaking, intelligence, the character of contemporary conflict, and unity of effort and command.

The challenge, as Bower sees it, is living up to the age-old adage of "diversity in counsel, unity in command": However many leaders a company has, it has to move forward decisively.

"International recognition endows African state actors with a domestic power of command," wrote Pierre Englebert, a professor of politics at Pomona College, in his recent book "Africa: Unity, Sovereignty & Sorrow".