Sentence examples for admiral from inspiring English sources

The acting chief of the Australian defence force, vice admiral Ray Griggs, told the same hearing that HMAS Perth was in the western part of the South China Sea.

Then there's the island's seafaring heritage: the biggest tourist attraction is Nelson's Dockyard in English Harbour, where the admiral himself lived in the 1780s.

Vladimir Nabokov, a brilliant lepidopterist as well as author, used the red admiral to sinister effect in his novel Pale Fire.

And Marren points out the long history of the red admiral butterfly as a symbol of "evil": red represents danger in nature, and the superstitious saw its blood-red wings as a sign of foreboding when vast numbers of them appeared across Russia in 1881, when Tsar Alexander II was assassinated.

We have an Eton-educated prime minister, a fifth cousin of the Queen from a long-established family of bankers and stockbrokers; a chancellor who will inherit a baronetcy; a Charterhouse-educated culture and media secretary (tipped, until recently, as a successor to Cameron) whose father was an admiral and aide to the Duchess of Kent.

But the admiral cannot have foreseen the astonishing sequence of budget negotiations that have paralysed Congress this past year.

They point to the Ergenekon case, which has put nearly every serving admiral behind bars.

The Republican did work there, but it was in the 1980s, before he set up a restaurant business and served three terms in Congress.If Mr Sestak does hold the Keystone State for the Democrats, the former admiral could sink what little chance the Republicans had of winning the Senate as well as the House.

The retired admiral thinks Chinese forces suffer from a lack of trust, which could slow them up in battle.

Although it is almost 200 miles (320km) from the fire, an emergency was declared in San Francisco, which gets a lot of its electricity from dams and power lines in the scorched area.Bob Filner resigned as mayor of San Diego after 18 women, starting with one of his senior aides and including a retired navy rear-admiral, accused him of sexual harassment.

Thirteen women, including a university dean and a retired rear-admiral, have come forward so far; one of them, Mr Filner's former communications director, is suing him.