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How to use the word COMMAND in a Sentence?

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[W]e made a great mistake in the beginning of our struggle, and I fear, in spite of all we can do, it will prove to be a fatal mistake. We appointed all our worst generals to command our armies, and all our best generals to edit the newspapers.

Robert E. Lee

added by Normando
5 months ago

(It was) a management decision. I wasn’t allowed to let anyone out alive, because my command was to kill anything in my way.

Azamat Uldarov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hope that people remember to just love people, praise This’s the greatest command of all, so I hope that people have an open mind for everything.

Anjelika Washington

Found on CNN
1 year ago

DoD needs to do this, active-duty service members don’t have a way to report mental health issues outside the chain of command because DoD just hasn’t gotten out of their own bureaucratic way to implement this act. It just requires the Secretary of Defense and his department to do their job.

Seth Moulton

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.

A.E. Samaan

added by AlvaroSiman
1 year ago

There were more dead bodies, and more, and more, people coming in. In the end I had a lot of people under my command, i could n’t count how many. They were in constant circulation. Dead bodies, more prisoners, more dead bodies, more prisoners.

Andrei Medvedev

Found on CNN
1 year ago

In certain instances, Russian military officials are actually subordinate to Wagner’s command, it’s pretty apparent to us that Wagner is emerging as a rival power center to the Russian military and other Russian ministries.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

According to our assessment, this is not the final change, [Putin] really does have problems with the command, both at the top level, the generals, and at the bottom level of platoon or company commander.

Vadym Skibitsky

Found on CNN
1 year ago

What happened on the 8th, and [Wednesday’s] operation clearly demonstrates that, was the absence of leadership, [Torres] changed the core of the leadership, travelled and left the office without command, allowing the unacceptable actions of the 8th to take place.

Ricardo Capelli

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I hate to bother you with this matter, but it appears that it is not going to stop; and such is not helpful. The vice chair ran for chair of the Alabama Democratic Party, she lost but she refuses to accept the results, i was elected as chair without a runoff. But our vice chair is doing everything at her command to frustrate, undermine, interfere, and prevent the Democratic Party from moving foward. She is also challenging my leadership.

Chairman Randy Kelley

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

To those of us who are a little bit older, it reminds us of what the Soviets used to do or what the Chinese do today, where they literally have political commissars inserted at every level end of the chain of command, but they have a separate reporting chain to ensure that the military is abiding by their ideology and their political doctrine.

Michael Waltz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Not only do they have diversity and equity officers in the cadet chain of command, they wear a special insignia, which is exactly what the political commissars — they would wear an armband in both the Soviet army and now in the Chinese Communist military. I just think there are some really alarming parallels.

Michael Waltz

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Vladimir Putin has terrible morale, unit cohesion on the battlefield, command and control has still not been solved. Vladimir Putin's got desertion problems and Vladimir Putin's forcing the wounded back into the fight. So clearly, manpower is a problem for Vladimir Putin.

John Kirby

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I reviewed his actions, and there's nothing he could've done otherwise than what he did, i did a command decision, and Victor Escalon is not going to be fired, period.

Steven McCraw

Found on CNN
1 year ago

U.S. Africa Command would like to thank all of our African and international partners who provided excellent cooperation over the months leading up to this recovery, in particular, the government of Niger, who were critical to this effort.

Timothy Pietrack

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We are trying to work with the incident command for these wildfires to do a real assessment, we see there are thousands of fish floating downstream, but we really are having a difficult time figuring out how bad it is.

Craig Tucker

Found on CNN
1 year ago

He’s got a really good early command of the offense, and he’s doing a really good job in regards to that, there’s little things that he’s doing where you’re seeing a little more security. He’s not a rookie, so he’s being a little more vocal. He looks good. He’s getting more comfortable, obviously grasping the offense. He’s never had trouble grasping the offense, but he was a rookie, so he goes through it. He’s much further ahead at this point than he was a year ago, for sure.

Robert Saleh

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

After a thorough review of the admin investigation, Sgt. Martin's chain of command determined that Martin violated multiple FWPD policies, the FWPD will continue to hold employees accountable who do not meet the standards expected of a Fort Worth police officer and in doing so, will continue to be transparent and open with our community.

Fort Worth Police Department

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

He threw the ball well, he just didn't have the command. They fouled off a bunch of pitches too.

Dusty Baker

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The report showed there were failures to make good decisions at multiple levels of the organization, failures to maintain command and control over Horse Patrol Units, lack of appropriate policies and training, and the overall chaotic nature of the situation at Del Rio at the time contributed to the incident. Several agents engaged in unprofessional or dangerous behavior, including one instance in which an agent used denigrating and offensive language.

Chris Magnus

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I think he’s going to bring a toughness, a blue-collar mentality, just because Getty Images’s how he’s built. That’s how he’s raised. You have to be that way from Saginaw, i think it ’ll be a different toughness that they have n’t seen. And he’s going to command and require a different respect level that they have n’t really had. ... And I think that will bode well for that team.

Draymond Green

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

PAGE UNRESPONSIVE You can wat for it to become responsive or exit the page The above two lines will pop up with every command you give at SBI Securities trading platform during every sudden big fall or rise of stock price and this happens more especially during opening and closing of trading session time

Lakshheish M Patel

added by laksheishmpatel_1
1 year ago

Our Creed does not command us to be free. It commands us to be wise.” - Altair

Garry Noctor

added by gnox512
1 year ago

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