7 sentences with 'commanders'
Example sentences and phrases with the word commanders and other words derived from it.
• « His commanders try to prevent him from taking part in the fighting, but they don't always succeed. »
• « Roman commanders were often from the heart of Italy, forming a direct link with the Roman centre. »
• « The new emperor made a deal with the Goths, allowing them to serve in the Roman army under their own commanders in return for payment. This proved disastrous for Rome in the long run, as the Goths, under their king Alaric, began to plunder Roman territory in the Balkans, eventually marching into Italy itself and sacking Rome in 410 CE. »
• « Against this backdrop of continuing carnage, even the most stubborn commanders were forced to recognise that their dreams of a spectacular breakthrough were probably unattainable. »
• « At worst, commanders took an utterly ruthless view of their own casualties: tens or even hundreds of thousands of deaths were signs of "progress" in the war effort, because they meant that the other side must also run out of soldiers. This was a war of attrition on a new level, a war that soldiers and junior officers alike recognised was designed to kill them in the name of a possible final victory. »
• « Stalin had spent the late 1930s "purging" various groups within the Soviet state and army, and his purges had already killed almost all the experienced commanders, leaving inexperienced and sometimes inept replacements in their wake. In many areas, the locals welcomed the Germans as a better controlling force than the Bolsheviks had been, without putting up any resistance. »