Sentence examples for commissioned corps from inspiring English sources

"Despite extensive financing, professionalism in the Venezuelan army has decreased due to the retirement of large numbers of officers and a President Hugo Chavez move allowing non-commissioned officers to transition directly into the commissioned corps," he said in answer to questions from the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee in July.

The administration's subsequent choice for the post never received a Senate hearing, and since 2006 the position has been occupied by nearly invisible veterans of the commissioned corps.

The term "Secretary concerned" includes the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service and the Secretary of Commerce with respect to the commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Upon the creation of the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA) in 1965, the commissioned corps was separated from the Survey to become the Environmental Science Services Administration Corps (or "ESSA Corps").

Commissioned corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The job of the surgeon general is mostly hortatory, to educate the public on health issues like smoking and AIDS, but he also supervises the 5,600 members of the Public Health Service commissioned officer corps.

While the well-outfitted, commissioned FSA photography corps were traveling across America documenting life throughout the country, Pete was hauling his large-format Graflex camera everywhere he went in Iowa, photographing the farmers he worked with and the daily Iowa life he knew so well.

Back in England he was commissioned in the intelligence corps and sent to the Middle East.

As the U.S. Coast Survey and U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, the agency operated a fleet of survey ships, and from 1917 the Coast and Geodetic Survey was one of the uniformed services of the United States with its own corps of commissioned officers.

New York City Ballet has bestowed a rare honor on a member of its corps, commissioning two works from Justin Peck, the company said on Wednesday.

And it should be: commissioned by the chemical warfare corps of the US army, it was designed by Erich Mendelsohn (1887-1953), the German architect who settled in the US in 1941 after a spell in England.