"commander" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Lieut. Col. Javier Carrion, the regional Sandinista commander, said he knew of no border crossings by his troops.
- Sandinista commanders wanted to attack before something happened that could reinvigorate the contras.
- The Sandinista commanders say they have tried to wage a humane revolution - and by any standard theirs has not been a notably bloody effort to bring social change.
- In 1982 he turned to the charismatic Edén Pastora, the former Sandinista commander starting up the rebel Democratic Revolutionary Alliance, only to become disenchanted with him as well.
- The defeated Government's opponents complain that Sandinista military commanders are now in charge of the police in many areas and continue to harass them.
- The shift in popular outlook may have been made possible by the division of powers among the Sandinista commanders after their electoral defeat.
- The Sandinista commander in the area sent out units to ambush the returning contras and to determine the location of their headquarters.
- But the rebels do not at present seem to be the "strategically defeated" force that top Sandinista commanders have tried to depict.
- "It's a very professional operation run by the C.I.A. and we haven't been able to stop it," a senior Sandinista commander said.
- Mr. Ruiz, one of nine ruling Sandinista commanders, said some donor countries have complained that Nicaragua does not efficiently use the aid it receives.
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