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Example sentences for: commanded

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Charles Horner, who commanded the air offensive in the Gulf War, said that if Clinton's aim was to destroy the sites Iraq had declared off-limits to U.N. inspectors, "we have failed before even beginning, since nobody knows where they are."
During the Boer War he successfully commanded a vastly outnumbered force of 1,250 men during the siege of Mafeking, and he went home a national hero.
When Lieutenant Governor Simcoe built it in 1793, it commanded a strategic position directly on the lakeshore, facing potential attack from across the American border.
A magnificent example of Gothic military architecture, the castle has commanded the sea and land approaches to the city since its construction in the early 14th century by order of King Jaume II.
And no series has commanded such advance attention for a nonfarewell episode since Dallas ' revelation of who shot JR.