Sentence examples for commandant is a from inspiring English sources

The Commandant is a demonic father figure, a seducer and a predator who rules his young charges less through fear than through the motivational grandiosity of a football coach.

Its commandant is a separate member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and it fights both as an amphibious assault entity and as an essentially autonomous ground combat unit.

Colonel Winter (James Gandolfini), the prison's commandant, is a great admirer of the general but is offended by a comment he overhears: Irwin criticizes Winter's much-prized military artifacts collection, calling it something no actual battlefield veteran would ever have.

During the scene where the Commandant is talking, there is a brief shot of Lisa blinking.

The rank of a commandant depends upon the size and importance of his command: in the British Army a colonel commandant is the senior officer of a regiment; in the French Army a commandant is the commanding officer of a battalion, a rank equivalent to major; and the commandant of the United States Marine Corps is a four-star general.

The Commandant is whimsical, eccentric, affecting a conventional military beret but in other ways preferring to look like a bandit: Idris Elba's performance gives him that important aura of leadership that keeps his men in line, but he displays none of the occasional humour and charm shown by, say, Forest Whitaker in his portrayal of Idi Amin.

Gen. James L. Jones, a retired Marine commandant, is Mr. Obama's national security adviser; Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, the retired Army chief of staff, is secretary of veterans affairs; and Dennis C. Blair, a retired admiral, is director of national intelligence.

His intent is to show a friend, Brigadier General Wheeler (Delroy Lindo), the commandant's superior officer, that the commandant is unfit and should be removed from command under the Uniform Code of Military Justice.