Sentence examples for was once commanded from inspiring English sources

The 500-plane air force was once commanded by Mr. Assad's father, Hafez.

(This was once a command centre against Napoleon's potential invasion).

This interview with Joseph J. Plumeri, chairman and chief executive of Willis Group Holdings, the insurance brokerage, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. A. I was once a command-and-control guy, but the environment's different today.

Benedict Arnold was once in command of West Point and offered to surrender the army post at West Point to the British for 20,000 pounds, but his courier was captured before the letters were delivered.

During the Brazilian Revolution of 1930, Bahia served with Rio Grande do Sul until that ship defected and five or six destroyers off the coast of Santa Catarina; they were once again commanded by Belford Gomes.

A concrete grey swimming pool – dry except for when the spring rains come – and eerie piles of rocks covered in Nazi graffiti are the only indicators that this was once a German command centre.

Late in life, Bierce described his military service in these terms: It was once my fortune to command a company of soldiers – real soldiers.

After years of suppression and much overshadowing, rock music is once again commanding the city's club and festival stages.

Here is a man who was once a janitor and now commands a crowd at the Sydney Opera House.

Shlomor Shamir was once again given the command of the operation.

On the third day of the battle he wrote to her again: "Who knows whether we may not have to wage a third war in order to keep what we have now won?" Four years later Frederick was in action again, this time during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, in which he was once more paired with Blumenthal and commanded the III Army, consisting of troops from the southern German states.