11.   New commanders, including an ethnic Albanian from the Croatian army, are executing better tactical operations, the officials said.

12.   Mullah Muhammad Omar, the supreme leader of the Taliban, has been trying to counter those efforts by appointing new commanders.

13.   Police Commissioners Raymond Kelly and William Bratton overhauled the unit during the Mollen investigation, adding new commanders, personnel and resources.

14.   She has promoted some of them and installed new commanders of her investigative units.

15.   Solovyev and Budarin plan to remain aboard Mir as the new commander and flight engineer once Atlantis departs the outpost for Earth.

16.   The general named the new NATO commander grew up in Arkansas and was a Rhodes scholar.

17.   The new military commander here, an outsider to the region, conceded in January that some of his men had been involved in raids on Christian villages.

18.   The new commanders are regarded as hard-liners, and the army appears to have gained power in North Korea in the last couple of years.

19.   The term has a primarily military meaning, that of a new commander, but is also applied in baseball to describe a relief pitcher.

20.   U.S. troops ultimately found the battery in the hands of fighters now loyal to the new regional commander, Gul Agha Shairzai.