Sentence examples for distinguished army from inspiring English sources
The first half of the book — which focuses on Mr. Powell's early life, his distinguished Army career and his role in the first gulf war under the first President Bush — draws heavily on the general's own memoirs, published in 1995.
Col. Charles Young Playground 6.42 acres at Lenox Avenue and 145th Street Col. Charles Young (1864-1922) was a distinguished Army officer, cartographer, teacher and diplomat who pioneered the entrance of African-Americans into fields that were previously closed to them.
For the picture, she hired the photographer Jason Schmidt to shoot her three ways: as attendants wearing custom bodysuits designed by Alexander Wang in what she calls "Bond-girl, gold of course!"; as a distinguished army officer in a painting by the artist Kehinde Wiley; and as a dominating mafia Don in the center — "Some sort of ruler in my own reality," Santi calls it.
He referred to the fighters not as terrorists, as the government does, but as "the free army," which he distinguished from "the regular army".
This army distinguished itself in campaigns against the Ottoman Turks in 1821 23.
Although, in the wars of the Grand Alliance against Louis XIV (1689 97), Prussia's contingents in the imperial army distinguished themselves everywhere, Prussia emerged practically unrewarded at the Treaty of Rijswijk (1697).
The two armies are distinguished by their dress, anachronistic though it is: whereas Alexander's men clad themselves and their horses in full suits of heavy armour, many of Darius' wear turbans and ride naked mounts.
Mr. Rakove's excellent reply: "They had the characteristic slouch that would always distinguish an American army from its Old World counterparts — the 'Willie and Joe look' that the great World War II cartoonist Bill Mauldin later captured".
Ubico received a commission in the Guatemalan army in 1897, distinguished himself in several campaigns, and rose to the rank of colonel.
It also creates a striking diversity: among the more than 100 reservists who make up this elite platoon are left-wing kibbutzniks and right-wing settlers, goat farmers and lawyers, 22-year-old students and 40-year-old construction workers -- men who distinguished themselves during their compulsory army service and were specially selected to join.
Soon after his appointment as a general officer in 1830, he was assigned to the Russian forces suppressing an insurrection in Poland (1830); though he was wounded during Russia's defeat at the Battle of Grochów in February 1831, he distinguished himself when the Russian army seized Warsaw (September 1831) and crushed the rebellion.
