How to Use high command in a Sentence

high command

noun

• The 20 members of the student body are daughters of Nazis in Hitler’s high command.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 25 Mar. 2021
• But Vigneault’s words of self-defense weren’t enough to sway the team’s high command.
  — Allan Kreda, New York Times, 8 Apr. 2018
• Six months into the job, Simon was nowhere near finishing the task and had nothing to show the high command.
  — Dan Senor, Fortune, 5 Nov. 2023
• At least as far back as 2010, the Navy’s high command had been put on notice about its troubled state of readiness.
  — Megan Rose, ProPublica, 24 June 2019
• Within a few days, a meeting was scheduled in Trump Tower with the high command of the Trump campaign.
  — Matt Viser, BostonGlobe.com, 17 May 2018
• By this stage of the war, many in the Japanese military high command believed their cause was lost.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020
• Gutmann and his wife were killed in the Theresienstadt and Auschwitz death camps, and their collection looted by the Nazi high command.
  — Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2018
• At the end of 1917, the German high command had decided that the army needed a spring offensive to revive morale.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 6 Apr. 2018
• As to be expected, the high command did not react favorably to these home truths.
  — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
• So when the high command voiced its outrage over Cienfuegos’ arrest, the president was quick to take up his cause.
  — Tim Golden, ProPublica, 8 Dec. 2022
• So when the high command voiced its outrage over Cienfuegos’s arrest, the president was quick to take up his cause.
  — Tim Golden, New York Times, 8 Dec. 2022
• Her backers released photos of members of the high command saluting her.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
• Many of these hand-wringers are attention-seeking, erstwhile strategists who can’t seem to get their phone calls returned by the Biden high command.
  — Walter Shapiro, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2020
• The military had hoped at the time that Khan would provide a useful civilian façade for policies dictated by the army’s high command.
  — Husain Haqqani, Foreign Affairs, 12 June 2023
• The military high command met with Ms. Añez for more than an hour at the government palace Tuesday night in what her aides described as a planning session to keep the peace.
  — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2019
• Each one sat in silence in the atrium of his own house, on the ivory throne that symbolized his high office, his hands holding the insignia of imperium—high command.
  — Ingrid D. Rowland, The New York Review of Books, 23 Mar. 2022
• In Tel Aviv, the generals at military high command were triumphant.
  — New York Times, 21 May 2021
• Even if the party's high command did know about or helped form the 30th September Movement, there is no evidence that any rank-and-file members had knowledge of its plans.
  — Vincent Bevins, Washington Post, 30 Sep. 2017
• During a marathon Zoom session in May, after the campaign’s first major round of polling in the general election, Mr. Biden and his high command spent hours poring over the electoral map.
  — Jonathan Martin, New York Times, 7 Nov. 2020
• At the same time, the Ukrainian high command is managing multiple other campaigns.
  — Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2023
• Notably, however, there is no evidence that civilian hardship played a role in the German high command’s decision to end the war.
  — Barry Eichengreen, Foreign Affairs, 21 June 2022
• In Egypt, the military high command is supervising both the transitional government and the reform process.
  — Robert H. Pelletreau, Foreign Affairs, 24 Feb. 2011
• Also unknown is how many fighters remain inside the Azovstal plant, with commanders now under orders from the army’s high command to save the lives of their personnel instead of pressing on with their defense.
  — Patrick J. McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2022
• Bukele has been as determined as his predecessors and the military high command to quash the investigation.
  — Raymond Bonner, ProPublica, 13 Sep. 2011
• The Ukrainian military high command has maintained a general silence on troop movements.
  — Marc Santora, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• Madness clearly abounded in the high command, but three countries going insane in the same way at the same time isn’t exactly a satisfying explanation.
  — Daniel Immerwahr, The Atlantic, 4 Apr. 2022
• Ukraine’s military high command said Monday that Russian occupation forces in Kherson had imposed a ban on the movement of all local residents.
  — Marc Santora, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Sep. 2022
• Ukraine's military high command said Monday that Russian forces had banned movement by local residents in the occupied Kherson region.
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 5 Sep. 2022
• Unlike other tanks, Tigers were primarily assigned to independent heavy tank battalions of 45 tanks each that the high command parceled to help out in particularly tough battles.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Dec. 2018
• Unlike several other characters in the film, namely the stereotypical Air Force high command, the 11 chimps in X all have particular personalities and skills.
  — Duane Byrge, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2018

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