Sentence examples for were commander from inspiring English sources

If he were commander in chief, he said, "we'd have nuked them in hours, turned Afghanistan into a sand puddle".

Other members of the crew were commander Francis (Dick) Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, mission specialists Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, and Ronald McNair, and Hughes Aircraft engineer Gregory Jarvis.

MARTIN'S TAVERN Serving first families and everyday Georgetown denizens since 1933, Martin's boasts visits by every United States president since Harry S. Truman, except for the nation's current one, all before they were commander in chief.

In Beirut today, as a national holiday was declared to celebrate the Israeli retreat and as Hezbollah solidified its hold on liberated villages in the south, the normally reticent Sheik Nasrallah made grandiose pronouncements as if he were commander in chief of a victorious army after a long campaign -- as many in the Arab world believe he is.

If I were commander-in-chief.

Many Iranians, in the country and abroad, shudder to think of what might have been in these uncertain and violent days, if instead of Barack Obama, George W. Bush or John McCain were Commander-in-Chief of the United States -- if instant counter-productive threats of force were hurled at the Iranian government instead of measured and productive calls for support of peaceful protesters.

That was Commander Goetzee.

Tuvia was commander.

Obama is commander in chief now!

"I am Commander X," he told reporters.

"He is commander in chief.