Sentence examples for was in command of the from inspiring English sources

Commander Waddle was in command of the submarine Greeneville on Feb. 9, when the attack submarine surfaced rapidly in a demonstration of emergency procedures, crashing into and sinking the Ehime Maru, a 174-foot Japanese fishery training trawler.

But since she returned in January after six weeks of R&R, she still seems to be tamed by the man who held her gaze at the inauguration -- the one she lavishly described as "the new commander in chief" who "showed he was in command of the script and the country".

Though ordered not to circle longer than fifteen minutes, Sweeney continued to wait for The Big Stink, at the urging of Commander Frederick Ashworth, the plane's weaponeer, who was in command of the mission.

My father was in command of the missile batteries.

But as soon as Azarenka seized the tiebreaker, she was in command of the match.

Monson's last service at sea was in command of the ship-money fleet of 1635.

He was in command of the Washington Navy Yard at the time of his death.

Nuon Chea was in command of the killing machine, and "the second man for the killing was Son Sen".

Equally dramatic was the defection of Ashikaga Takauji, who was in command of the main armies of the shogunate.

Mohammad Ayub Khan, Yahya was in command of the military when street riots erupted in the country.

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1963, and at the time of Nigeria's first coup in January 1966 was in command of the fifth battalion in Kano.