Sentence examples for commissaire for from inspiring English sources

Cookson served as UCI international commissaire for 23 years between 1986 and 2009, helping to organise, co-ordinate and officiate international cycling races.

Chris Froome's carbon-fibre bike was one of half a dozen examined after the finish here by commissaires looking for the hidden electric motors that are to cycling what the Loch Ness monster is to the natural world.

This fleeting image, solidified as Jules Maigret, a commissaire of the Brigade Criminelle in Paris, served Simenon in 75 novels and 28 short stories published between 1931 and 1972.

"They alerted Dutch authorities, who told them it was Belgian territory," said Jean-Francois Duchesne, police commissaire of the Lower Meuse region.

I was chasing back when the commissaire's car braked for a rider in front of them.

The situation is different in continental Europe, particularly in France, where police forces use a dual system of recruitment: entrants may start their careers at the base of the organization and progressively rise higher, or they may use lateral entry for an appointment at the commissaire ("commissioner") level.

There is a considerable number of items from Barry, the Commissaire des Classes at Marseilles.

PROFILE of Robert Bellet, commissaire principal, or chief purser of the French Line ship, the Liberte.

Apart from the great Holmes himself, who grappled with beasts like the Baskerville hound and the giant rat of Sumatra (in "a story for which the world is not yet prepared"), it's hard to think of a detective who has faced more monstrous threats to European civilization than Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg.

In August 1944, De Gaulle appointed Aubrac to the post of commissaire de la république in Marseilles.

COMMISSAIRE YOU SAY > COM – EE – SAIR (rhymes with hair) WHAT IT MEANS > The commissaire is cycling's equivalent of an umpire or a referee.