Word: commandeering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...campaign has also made it share of strange, self-inflicted mistakes, suggesting that as Obama Central scales up its operation to prepare for the convention, pick a vice president and run a truly national campaign, it is developing some kinks in its once-smooth-functioning command and control...
...news for Facebook: It lost its functional second in command today. Matt Cohler, 31, who oversees the Facebook "product" and is generally perceived to be the core of the original management team, is joining Benchmark Capital, a powerful Bay Area venture capital firm...
...late former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, proved abortive. (Hasina, however, was released to much acclaim on parole on June 11 to seek medical treatment in the U.S.) Also unsuccessful have been attempts to lure away party stalwarts. Given the aura of their pedigreed leaders, the two parties still command a vast following among Bangladesh's population - a combined 80% by most estimates - and the length of the two begums' detention has drawn the ire of millions. As elsewhere in impoverished South Asia, populist dynasties hold strong. "Hasina had her shortcomings, but she is a legendary figure," says Abdur Razzaq...
...Whether European countries undertake such discussions or not, the 38th Munitions Maintenance Group, which overseas the billeted U.S. weapons, is already under scrutiny from its own command in the wake of the report. According to the website of Spangdahlem Air Base in Germany, General Roger A. Brady, Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, recently visited Belgium's Kleine Brogel Air Base and Volkel Air Base in the Netherlands. "I have no questions about our security," he was quoted as saying in Belgium. "I have concerns because of our mission, and I have concerns because it's human beings doing...
...report this month, the New York?based organization Human Rights Watch details how the Joint Operations Command, combining the heads of all Zimbabwe's armed forces, unleashed the violence under the name Operation Makavhoterapapi, or "Where did you put your vote?" Tiseke Kasambala, the organization's Zimbabwe researcher, told TIME that Mugabe is still a powerful force, even though he is now letting the generals call the shots. The MDC goes further, saying the top generals of the Joint Operations Command are now in charge of Zimbabwe, having staged a silent coup shortly after the March elections. In a telephone...