Sentence examples for commander director from inspiring English sources

Consigliere, enforcer, point guard, battlefield commander, director of traffic, reality therapist, heat shield: each of these descriptions is used at some point during the four-hour documentary "The Presidents' Gatekeepers" to characterize the job of White House chief of staff.

Mr. Petraeus, the military commander and director of the Central Intelligence Agency, resigned on Friday after admitting an affair with a woman later identified by Obama administration officials as his biographer.

"The liberal use of tourniquets has clearly been a lifesaver," said Dr. Eric Elster, a Navy commander and director of surgical services at the NATO hospital at Kandahar Air Field.

"You're talking about people working in a very closed environment probably 10 months to a year," said Douglas B. Stevenson, a retired Coast Guard commander and director of the institute's Center for Seafarers Rightss.

He will not announce any of the top intelligence appointments on Monday, but the Democrats said they expected him soon to name Adm. Dennis C. Blair, a retired Pacific Fleet commander, as director of national intelligence.

He had not got the job he was seeking as divisional commander or director of the special forces – surprising, in view of his outstanding service in the latter in Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Iraq as well as Afghanistan, which brought a clutch of medals including the DSO and CBE.

"It's been a self-perpetuating story," Commander John Filostrat, director of public affairs for Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, said in an interview at the base last December.

In his career as a scholar-official for the central government, Shen Kuo was also an ambassador to the Western Xia Dynasty and Liao Dynasty, a military commander, a director of hydraulic works, and the leading chancellor of the Hanlin Academy.

Following a decision in 1937 to establish the first north Australian RAAF base, in April 1938 Eaton, now on the headquarters staff of RAAF Station Laverton, and Wing Commander George Jones, Director of Personnel Services at RAAF Headquarters, began developing plans for the new station, to be commanded by Jones, and a new squadron that would be based there, led by Eaton.

THE SUICIDE BOMBER Written and directed by Tuvia Tenenbom, based on stories told by memebers of Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Popular Front, the Palestine Liberation Organization and Shin Bet field commanders; assistant director, Zahavit Paz; sets by Mark Symczak; lighting by Jason Sturm; costumes by Terry Leong; production stage manager, Jake Witlen; assistant stage manager, Vadim Malinsky.

Broinowski's sojourn to North Korea to absorb Kim's commandments ("the director is the commander of the creative group", "one must aim high in creation", "emotions should be well-defined in directing"), makes for sweet moments that nonetheless nag at you.