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the "protection" he affords you.  He does not keep "protecting" you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding...

there, if the institution loses its efficacy or becomes incapable of commanding respect, the imitative and repetitious character of violence becomes manifest...

Western Theater of that war in the spring of 1864. He later served as Commanding General of the U.S. Army from 1869 to 1883. He is best known for his "March...

Unfortunately the Naval Service enjoys no such legacy; founded in 1946, its first commanding officer was from the Royal Navy. Aidan McIvor, A History of the Irish...

removal. Brigadier General Reeder commanding the 4th and 16th regiments, via telegraph to Major General Bolton, commanding the Second Division, Pennsylvania...

Command. He previously served as commanding general of the United States Army Pacific and before that as the commanding general of Third Army. Brooks was...

what violence cannot, and that mandate compels more which comes from a commanding calm. Panegyricus dictus Manlio Theodoro consuli, lines 239-241. Vile...

ed. The Corsican (1910), p. 60 The Field Marshal desires that when the Commanding Officers of regiments of cavalry, battalions of infantry, and troops and...

entire ship reflects the personality and ability of one individual, her Commanding Officer. To a landsman, this is not understandable—and sometimes it is...

president of the United States of America, from 1869 to 1877. As the Commanding General of the U.S. Army, Grant worked closely with U.S. President Abraham...

Lieutenant Commander Bacon, who speaks in high terms of Colonel Barton, the commanding officer of the land forces. Lieutenant Commander Bacon, whose vessel is...

general was doing more for victory by writing a poem than he would be by commanding an army. At least, he might be doing less harm. By applying the same logic...

existing one. The delegates elected George Washington of Virginia, former commanding general of the Continental Army in the late American Revolutionary War...

Captain is a title, an appellative for the commanding officer of a military unit; the supreme leader of a navy ship, merchant ship, aeroplane, spacecraft...

1947) was a senior officer in the British Army, who is most notable for commanding the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Gallipoli Campaign. If...

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895). Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Ralph...

first two years of his presidency. The farsighted Willard G. Wyman, the commanding general of the Continental Army Command, had asked Stoner to design a...

time was Bill Clinton’s secretary of defense. Cohen wasn’t an especially commanding figure, but he was an awfully nice man. You could sense that the moment...

We return back to base. Commanding dispatch: Lieutenant Saunders, do you copy? Lieutenant Saunders: Affirmative. Commanding dispatch: Take command. Detain...

living men, the Christian faith has come to be less and less regarded as a commanding and mighty power from heaven, a voice of authority, a law of holy life...