Sentence examples for were given command from inspiring English sources
Female officers were given command of the police and emergency services, and a voluntary curfew was imposed to keep men from the streets after dark.
When rebellion broke out in Ireland (October 1641), all agreed that it must be crushed; but Parliament rightly feared a military coup if the king were given command of the army.
The two surviving brothers, Selim and Bayezid, were given command in different parts of the empire.
Two brothers, Admiral Lord Richard Howe and General William Howe, were given command of the naval and land aspects of the operation respectively.
Vice Admiral Otto Ciliax, Scharnhorsts first commander, was given command of the operation.
Lieutenant Robert Maynard of HMS Pearl was given command of two commandeered sloops, to approach the town from the sea.
Admiral Werner, the senior commander in the group, was given command of the Anglo-German force.
On 20 April, Hipper was given command of the light cruiser, though his tenure as commander was short-lived.
Lerew was given command of No. 24 Squadron in May 1941, and raised to temporary wing commander in October.
Himmler was given command over Göring's Gestapo in April 1934.
He had been given command the previous July 26, shortly after the fiasco at Bull Run.
