"commander" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Historian Bernard Fall records, based on Langlais' memoirs, that Colonel Langlais and his fellow paratroop commanders, all fully armed, confronted de Castries in his bunker on 24 March.
- In the opening scenes of Red Dawn, he played the paratroop commander, and later the knife-wielding Russian tank commander gunned down at the service station.
- As a paratroop commander, Grachev reasoned that a sovereign Russia would need an army, and therefore a defence minister.
- The election is for governor of the Krasnoyarsk Province, to replace Aleksandr I. Lebed, the colorful former paratroop commander who died in a helicopter crash in April.
- Mr. Chavez, a former paratroop commander who staged an unsuccessful military coup in 1992, has so far shown little respect for the compromises necessary in a democracy, which Venezuela has had for 40 years.
- As a paratroop commander in Afghanistan he had seen it all before, and he vowed to stop it at once.
- Lieutenant-Colonel Mathieu, the paratroop commander, is the principal French character.
- Lieut. Gen. Ivan Babichev, a paratroop commander who was leading one of the three columns advancing on Grozny, halted his troops last week and said he would not fire on civilians.
- Mr Chavez, a former paratroop commander who was first elected in 1998, has repeatedly vowed to beat cancer, fully regain his health and sail to a victory in next year's presidential election.
- He steadily worked his way up the ranks, serving as a paratroop commander in both the 1967 and 1973 Arab-Israeli wars, and earning two Medals of Valor.
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