Sentence examples for usually commanded by a from inspiring English sources

According to my father, a platoon is usually commanded by a lieutenant.

Usually commanded by a lieutenant, it consists of from 25 to 50 men organized into two or more sections, or squads, led by noncommissioned officers.

It is usually commanded by a captain, who discharges the basic responsibilities for training, discipline, and providing for the welfare of the personnel.

Two comparable bodies battery of artillery and troop of cavalry became in most armies equivalent to a company; the artillery battery and the cavalry troop are usually commanded by a captain.

The French relied mostly on district and provincial colonial units to man their perpetually increasing line of forts, which were usually commanded by a French lieutenant.

A garrison was usually commanded by a constable whose peace-time role would have been looking after the castle in the owner's absence.

Following 1969's transitional In a Silent Way, the electric storm of Bitches Brew in 1970 became the biggest-selling jazz album in history, shifting 500,000 copies instead of the 60,000 usually commanded by his releases.

The trawler had been camouflaged since 1999 by name changes, quick coats of paint and frequent switches of registration and flags from Panama to Uruguay to Mauritania and the Netherlands Antilles, and usually commanded by Spanish officers.

Armies of this size were usually commanded by the sultan himself so rumors spread that Mehmed was leading the campaign.

But these are usually one-off congregations, commanded by a preacher of sometimes dubious provenance, with a writhing in the shadows that comes with speaking in tongues.In this section A rumble in the jungle Hallelujah!

Each katiba is usually drawn from one town, commanded by a respected local military veteran or, in some cases, by the businessman who financed it.