commander-in-chief betydelse and definition

Exempel på commander-in-chief

• A letter, sir, from the commander-in-chief of all our armies, he said, saluting proudly. 

• Remember that I am the commander-in-chief of the army and the governor of Louisiana. 

• The army then had one constitutional commander-in-chief of both army and navy, and one actual commanding general, bringing all parts into real harmony. 

• The commander-in-chief was true to his word. 

• Though commander-in-chief by the Constitution, he would have nothing to command, either by land or water until Congress raised both army and navy. 

• A law passed in 1991 gave the president carte blanche in the appointment of the commander-in-chief and the removal of top officers.

• None of these changes was necessarily congenial to the commander-in-chief, for all that he acquiesced in, and even implemented, them.

• It desires him to be primus inter pares among his colleagues and not commander-in-chief among his generals.