Sentence examples for distinguished officer from inspiring English sources

He made no mention of Detective Vasquez's departmental disciplinary history, and on Friday Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani commended Detective Vasquez as a distinguished officer who "put his life on the line in the middle of the night to protect the safety and security of this city".

The judges expressed their sympathy for "the late Sir Steuart Pringle, a distinguished officer, who faced an unwelcome challenge in his autumnal years, and also Simon Robert Pringle, the heir presumptive, who had grown up in the belief that his father was rightfully the 10th baronet and that he would in time succeed to the baronetcy".

Baston de Lariboisière was cited as a distinguished officer the outset of the French Revolution, for which he showed only moderate support.

Pilkington sold it to James Jones of the Graig, who sold it to Sir Robert Brownrigg, G.C.B. a distinguished officer in the Peninsula War.

Thomas Lumsden was a distinguished officer of the Bengal Horse Artillery who had served in the Nepal Campaign of 1814 and at the Siege of Hatrass and the capture of Kalunga in 1817.

James Peters, told them that he recalls Detective Turetzky saying that he had a problem distinguishing Officer Schwarz from another officer with a similar haircut.

"The way to distinguish officers from CXO's is the President title, but the promotions are well deserved and the title puts them on equal standing with the rest of the executive team," he explained.

Some Mongols became distinguished military officers, were granted noble ranks, and on rarer occasions became ministers in the state bureaucracy.

Norwegian-born seaman and naval officer, distinguished in both Venetian and Danish naval history.

Mr. Lynch said he feared the policies being discussed would not allow the department to distinguish between officers involved in serious accidents with injuries and others for whom a drunken driving arrest was the only blemish on their record.

March 1768 Smyrna, Delaware August 3, 1850 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Jacob Jones, (born March 1768, Smyrna, Del. died Aug. 3, 1850, Philadelphia) U.S. naval officer who distinguished himself in the War of 1812.