Sentence examples for commodore from inspiring English sources

I was kitted out in what I was assured was an authentic uniform of a commodore of the intergalactic starship.

When a captain is promoted, s/he skips the rank of commodore and becomes a rear admiral: two stars.Ralph Hattem.

A new way to annoy a neighbour A PR problem Nationalisation rides again Coconut dictator Barack Obama's Asian adventure Reprints Related items Fiji's constitutional coup: Puppet showApr 16th 2009But while he talks tough in the region, back home the commodore is in trouble.

But not for the first time, the region's heavyweights, Australia and New Zealand, seemed out on a limb.At the Pacific Islands Forum the commodore was welcomed warmly by Tonga's prime minister, Fred Sevele, feted rapturously by 900 rain-drenched schoolgirls and invited to dine with Don McKinnon, the Commonwealth's secretary-general.

Jasjit Singh, a former air commodore and now a defence analyst, who bailed out of MiG-21s twice when he was a squadron commander, says "it is one of the finest aircraft in the world difficult to fly but good in war".Mostly bought by India from the Soviet Union between the 1960s and 1980s, MiG-21s now make up about half its fleet of 750 combat aircraft.

One star is the insignia for a commodore.

Later, when his wife, Jarman's mother, was dying of cancer, the air commodore succumbed to kleptomania.

The commodore says that more than 1,200 African troops have now been trained on board the Fort McHenry since November, while an array of naval officers from Britain, Cameroon, France, Germany, Ghana and Portugal have taken commanding roles on the ship.

A Canadian commodore has been put in charge of "coalition" naval forces in the Persian Gulf, and 25 senior Canadian officers have been installed to help the Americans in Qatar.

The rank of commodore is not used.

"Whether it's the video games we show or Atari 2600s or people are programming for Commodore 64s is in service of the character drama, which is what drives the show," Rogers says.