How to Use high command in a Sentence

high command

noun
  • Yet the high command wished to avoid blame from the German people for losing the war.
    — Christine Adams / Made By History, TIME, 5 Nov. 2024
  • 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
  • The Harris high command was not built to lob Hail Mary passes.
    — Amie Parnes, The Hill, 29 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • On receipt of the directive, the Pentagon high command erupted in a storm of outrage.
    — Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Her backers released photos of members of the high command saluting her.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Her backers released photos of members of the high command saluting her.
    — Clifford Krauss, New York Times, 13 Nov. 2019
  • Her backers released photos of members of the high command saluting her.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Her backers released photos of members of the high command saluting her.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Her backers released photos of members of the high command saluting her.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Nov. 2019
  • 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
  • But raising the age question was grounds for excommunication from the high command of the Biden orbit.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 June 2024
  • 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
  • Biden’s high command continues to insist polls reflect a moment and not a movement.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 1 July 2024
  • 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

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