Sentence examples for admiralty from inspiring English sources

Gallipoli was the brainchild of Winston Churchill, then first lord of the admiralty.

That certainly does not apply to a man who claimed that the academic course that most influenced him was on, of all things, admiralty law.The legacyThe biggest problem with evaluating Mr Drucker's influence is that so many of his ideas have passed into conventional wisdom in other words, that he is the victim of his own success.

He left office with Stanley Baldwin's second ministry in June 1929, returned briefly (August October 1931) as first lord of the admiralty, and then passed the rest of his life as an elder statesman.

When Peel died in 1850, Graham became the leading Peelite in the Commons and helped promote the Whig-Peelite coalition government (1852 55) of the 4th Earl of Aberdeen, in which Graham once more served as first lord of the Admiralty.

Even before the Belgian capitulation, the British government had decided to evacuate the BEF by sea from Dunkirk, and the admiralty had been collecting every kind of small craft to help in bringing away the troops.

August 1651 East Coker, England March 1715 London, England William Dampier, (born August 1651, East Coker, Somerset, Eng. died March , 1715 London) buccaneer who later explored parts of the coasts of Australia, New Guinea, and New Britain for the British Admiralty.

There are also lay assessors in England and the United States in maritime and admiralty courts and in various civil jurisdictions.

Of particular interest is the Libel of English Policy (c. 1436) on another typically English theme of a related kind: "Cherish merchandise, keep the admiralty, / That we be masters of the narrow sea".

In certain cases the members of a board that has taken the place of an office of state are known as lords commissioners e.g., Lords of the Treasury and civil or naval Lords of the Admiralty.

Between 1947 and 1951 Callaghan held junior posts at the Ministry of Transport and at the Admiralty.

It encompasses the eastern half of New Guinea, the world's second largest island (the western half is made up of the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Papua); the Bismarck Archipelago (New Britain, New Ireland, the Admiralty Islands, and several others); Bougainville and Buka (part of the Solomon Islands chain); and small offshore islands and atolls.