Sentence examples for engineer corps from inspiring English sources

Thomson joined the Pennsylvania engineer corps at 19.

They modelled their groups on organisations they had grown up in: universities and engineer corps.

In October 1864, The Mobile Advertiser and Register listed the names of 575 black prisoners who "are employed by engineer corps at Mobile, Ala.

The fortifications at Anklam, Stralsund, Aix-en-Provence, and Île d'Oléron were among his most prominent creations; but the conservative French engineer corps of the ancien régime resisted his innovations and refused him permission to publish his theories.

The army turned against him as a result of his attempts to abolish the privileges of the artillery and engineer corps, and the king believed that student protests, the growing discontent in Catalonia, and the increasing conspiracies of the "old" politicians imperiled the dynasty.

In 2002, engineer corps from Puerto Rico built a mini-Trade Center, like a secular crucifix.

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Joseph Evelyn, the supervisory hydraulic engineer for the corps' Southern California office, said the basin had been built to withstand the largest debris flows the corps expects, and took into account that the flows could be made much worse by fires.

Maria Garzino, a corps engineer, identifies serious problems with the new pumps that now supposedly support and protect city canals.

"Our job," he said, "is to help the program trim its sails and be more successful". Mr. Bowen learned from a local corps engineer, Maj.

In 1655 he was admitted, as a "king's ordinary engineer," into the corps of officers that was gradually being built up, outside the regular military hierarchy, for specialized work on fortification and siege craft.