"I remember: Stalin killed most of the Soviet army commandership," he says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult] Reference

Comendador de Lares and was later raised to the supreme commandership of the Order of Calatrava.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings] Reference

The commandership of the new, enlarged division wasn't the one-horse race his superintendent blithely imagined.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost at Christmas]

During the commandership of Karna, the battle that took place between the Kuru and the Pandava troops was exceedingly fierce and lasted for two days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

Immediately after this he cabled that his physical ailments compelled him to resign the commandership-in-chief, and begged the Government to appoint a successor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands] Reference

The commandership of the new, enlarged Denton Division was definitely to be his, and a replacement for Frost would arrive that morning from County H.Q. Shame about Frost, of course, but things couldn't have worked out better.    From Wordnik.com.  [Frost at Christmas]

But one important thing to remember here, Kyra, that no former army dictator president of Pakistan has ever handed off the commandership of the army and been able to stay on as president for very long, because they lose their power base.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 30, 2007] Reference

The Prophet also accomplished a heroic job by single-handedly transforming a fledgling Muslim community into an indomitable force, so much so that the Muslims were about the overrun the entire world within a century after the Prophet's death, if not for the Muslims 'defeat at the hands of the Franks under the commandership of Charles Martel in the battle of Tours in central France in 732 CE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Why Muslims have more rights in Australia?] Reference

A little later, the commandership was made hereditary in his family.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince Henry the Navigator, the Hero of Portugal and of Modern Discovery, 1394-1460 A.D. With an Account of Geographical Progress Throughout the Middle Ages As the Preparation for His Work.] Reference

Government in vain promoted Kolokotrónis from captivity to commandership-in-chief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Balkans A History of Bulgaria—Serbia—Greece—Rumania—Turkey] Reference

Lord Ormont had been on guard then and always: his instinct of commandership kept him on guard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

The commandership-in-chief of the Venetian forces was perhaps the highest military post in Italy.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Italian sketches] Reference

Not if they are history, and eloquence and commandership have power over the blood and souls of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tragic Comedians — Complete] Reference

It encouraged the Peace Party, revived Confederate hopes, and shook the army's faith in Grant's commandership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray] Reference

Presently he made some inquiry of Jules Pierrepont, who had now assumed commandership of the party, as to the reason of his arrest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doctor of Pimlico Being the Disclosure of a Great Crime] Reference

Dr. Mommsen ridicules his pedantry in refusing, on grounds of loyalty, to take the commandership-in-chief over the head of a superior in rank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures and Essays] Reference

Baillie goes over the whole of his unfortunate commandership against Montrose, from his meeting with Argyle at Roseneath after Inverlochy (Jan. 1644-5) to the Battle of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Milton Volume 3 1643-1649] Reference

Flouting democratic traditions, the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) shapes the future of the commandership by promoting and selecting generals long before positions become open.    From Wordnik.com.  [TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News]

But this evening, they had thought it needless to remain on guard; and it would have been impossible, because themselves were busy offering high festival to all the valley, in right of their own commandership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference

She was on the present occasion less than usually an acute or a reflective observer, owing to her admiration of lordly state and masculine commandership; and her thought was: 'She has indeed made a brilliant marriage!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

He was able to think of affairs of State while feeling the satisfied thirst of the lover whose pride, irritated by confidential wild eulogies of the beautiful woman, had recently clamoured for proofs of his commandership.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana of the Crossways — Complete] Reference

EMASYA indicates that in cases of public unrest, even if the civil authorities do not ask for it, the military can intervene, and in such cases, all other security forces have to act under the commandership of the military.    From Wordnik.com.  [TODAY'S ZAMAN :: News] Reference

We cried and then laughed together, and I must have delivered myself with amazing eloquence, for my father held me at arms 'length and said,' Richie, the notion of training you for a General commandership of the British army is.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference

Comstock's commandership in my eyes was that, though always on the alert and giving direction to every movement, he did not need to command half so much nor to make himself anything like so conspicuous as an ordinary man would.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851.] Reference

The discovery that the Naya had fled increased the indignation of the mob, and were it not for the urgent appeal of Kona, who had at once assumed the commandership, the whole of the magnificent rooms would no doubt have been wrecked.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great White Queen A Tale of Treasure and Treason] Reference

King Edward VII of England, who was then Prince of Wales, sent him his personal congratulations; Humbert, the king of Italy, sent him his portrait; the khedive of Egypt decorated him with the grand commandership of the Order of the Medjidie; the Geographical.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eclectic School Readings: Stories from Life] Reference

The Isle has always stood like a fortress, and has always had a title and commandership, which once were very real things; the people told me that the King of England's third title was Marquis of Ely, and I knew of myself that just before the civil wars the commandership of the Isle gave the power of raising men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hills and the Sea] Reference

We cried and then laughed together, and I must have delivered myself with amazing eloquence, for my father held me at arms 'length and said,' Richie, the notion of training you for a General commandership of the British army is a good one, but if you have got the winning tongue, the woolsack will do as well for a whisper in the ear of the throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete] Reference

The heroic Soviet people won the war despite Stalin destroying more than 80 percent of the army commandership right before the war, "Reshetnikov says.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cult] Reference

Much of the stuff was required to deal King Robert of Warbeach the capital stroke, and commonly he could hold on till a puff of cold air from the outer door, like an admonitory messenger, reminded him that he was, in the greatness of his soul, a king of swine; after which his way of walking off, without a word to anybody, hoisting his whole stature, while others were staggering, or roaring foul rhymes, or feeling consciously mortal in their sensation of feverishness, became a theme for admiration; ay, and he was fresh as an orchard apple in the morning! there lay his commandership convincingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rhoda Fleming — Complete] Reference