Sentence examples for drill master from inspiring English sources

And he did so in his clipped Hanseatic dialect which makes him sound to southern Germans like a Prussian drill master.

Nicholas I was by nature a drill master and an inspector general; the army remained his love, almost an obsession, from childhood to the end of his life.

One key figure in the group's dynamics was Jose Henriquez, 54, a drill master and evangelical preacher who was named the group's official "pastor".

Gen. Wesley K. Clark strode into his new campaign headquarters here on Saturday to the beat of Van Halen's "Right Now," then, like a drill master, addressed his new recruits.

In the marching band, you were both the drum major and the drill master?

Even as drill masters studied ancient Roman textbooks to recover the discipline that made the legions formidable instruments of policy, so too did strategists return to a Classical world in which the logic of foreign policy shaped the conduct of war.

To prepare the regiment for action, Devereux enlisted the aid of several members of the Salem Light Infantry company to serve as drill masters.

No one rises through the ranks of his local and national Scrabble associations without doing "alphagram" drills (mastering a long list of commonly occurring letter combinations that contain multiple bingos); memorizing the "vowel dumps" ("aalii," "aerate," "aioli," et al).

"It took us two months to reach where we are today," says Daniel Kimani, the Kenyan drill-master working on the site, "but we've finally hit the water and after casing the borehole, we should be pumping by next week".

Daniel Kimani, the Kenyan drill-master working on the site says, "It took us two months to reach where we are today, but we've finally hit the water and after casing the borehole, we should be pumping by next week".

With the incentive of high oil prices and the application to oil of drilling techniques mastered for shale gas, we now estimate that tight oil will account for almost half of the 16 million barrel per day increase in the world's oil output by 2030.