Especially among commanders, he said, "they run the risk of believing they can act like a proconsul.

This led to a feeling among senior commanders and politicians in the UK that the momentum of the campaign was being lost.

Among precinct commanders, they became known as the team to ask for when the department was faced with a particularly difficult murder.

If there existed a common anxiety among good commanders, it was the fear of being out of command.

Optimism increased among German commanders, that the offensive had ended.

But as it becomes evident that few of the foreign volunteers are leaving, there is increasing discontent among American diplomats and commanders.

That view is widely shared among Salvadoran commanders and their American advisers.

The change was not formulated on precise tactical intelligence, and would come to cause some confusion among Israeli commanders for the rest of the day.

The battle was particularly damaging due to the number of casualties among key commanders.

But his other remarks reflected what appeared to be a broad feeling among American commanders that a 15-month countdown might be too fast.