military command

collocation in English

meaningsofmilitaryandcommand

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military
adjective
uk
/ˈmɪl.ɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈmɪl.ə.ter.i/
relating to or belonging to the ...
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command
noun
uk
/kəˈmɑːnd/us
/kəˈmænd/
an order, especially one given by ...
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(Definition ofmilitaryandcommandfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Regime theories suggest that a partisan agenda will strongly influence personnel decisions, which include discretionarymilitarycommandappointments.
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Thatmilitarycommandis, of course, temporary.
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Is it themilitarycommand, or who?
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They would remain undermilitarycommand.
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They are confronting a massive unity ofmilitarycommand.
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He has representatives in theirmilitarycommandstructure.
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It is to have a full-timemilitarycommandstructure.
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Our initial experiments were set in amilitarycommandand control domain with a supply convoy moving through an unsecured area.
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The medical establishment is described as amilitarycommand, with cutting-edge researchers in the vanguard against disease and public health workers in the trenches.
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In amilitarycommandstructure in which seniority counted heavily, the power to delay appointments and promotions could have important consequences.
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He proposes that the fire services and other services should come undermilitarycommandand should prepare themselves formilitarycommandin emergency.
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Such improvements would be expensive and require a very high level of cooperation, necessitating the integratedmilitarycommandfor planning and organising improvements across the alliance forces.
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On all these occasions they are subject to military discipline and appropriatemilitarycommand.
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It is also about the disregard by themilitarycommandof basic rules.
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If not in law, certainly in fact we are no longer under our ownmilitarycommand.
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The operations of civil control must work as quickly and as decisively as anymilitarycommand.
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I am afraid that civilians undermilitarycommandtend to increase in numbers.
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That would obviously apply to defence plans and to contingencymilitarycommandarrangements.
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What would happen anywhere down the line in that dispersed chain ofmilitarycommand?
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We must have a new command, and in the circumstances it must be amilitarycommand.
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This is a matter, as always, for military judgment andmilitarycommand.
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The result of talking of "military branch"and"militarycommand" has been this.
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With rotation, the so-calledmilitarycommandstructure is even more frightening.
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Having disobeyed amilitarycommandthe man is, of course, liable to be court-martialled.
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Reified inmilitarycommand-and-control systems, cybernetic ideas rendered support to the vision of the political and social world as a closed, computable system subject to manipulation and control.
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