When the municipal officials or local commanders fail to respond, these groups tax themselves to provide them.

If a commander failed in his task, his company merely melted away.

Because commanders failed to take that force into account, the Army's procurement machine could never catch up, no matter how hard it tried.

However, the German commander failed to press the attack.

The Romulan commander either failed to notice this or didn't care.

It was in poor defensive positions, and its commander failed to realize the seriousness of his predicament until too late.

"These senior commanders apparently failed to convey their concern to the tank commander who fired on the hotel," the committee said in its 11-page report.

Investigations have shown Government soldiers were beaten after commanders failed to back up units under rebel attack.

Many hopeful commanders had failed this particular type of test.

And though they fell backwards in a hail of infinite numbers, the commander knew we must break through this time or else fail forever.