Sentence examples for former corps from inspiring English sources

The immediate incident that led to the rebellion was Bligh's arrest of John Macarthur, a former corps officer and one of the colony's leading entrepreneurs, for a violation of port regulations.

While the crossing of the Irrawaddy by the former corps on both sides of Mandalay distracted the attention of the Japanese, the latter corps took Meiktila on March 3 , 1945 and held it against fierce counterattacks.

One U.S. corps, however, was approaching it from Lingayen over the Central Plains; a second corps was landed at Subic Bay, at the northern end of the Bataan Peninsula, on January 29 , 1945 to make contact with the former corps at Dinalupihan a week later; and troops made an amphibious landing at Nasugbu, south of Manila Bay, on January 31.

Its point of view hews closest to that of Colin Goddard, a former Corps of Cadets and R.O.T.C. member who was shot four times in a Virginia Tech classroom — three bullets are still inside him — and who is now a compelling, not to mention ruggedly handsome, spokesman for gun control.

Current and former corps officials said that they expect almost every part of the system that was designed to divert floodwaters along the Mississippi River and Tributaries Project to come into play, including backwater areas at the mouths of the St. Francis, White, Yazoo and Red Rivers.

"Ballet is obviously an art form that is reflective of the time in which it was created, and certainly at the time our big classics were created, women had a very different role in society," said Rachel Moore, a former corps member at American Ballet Theater and now its executive director.

In 1962, Diem decided to split the command of the area in the south around Saigon into two, the former III Corps area being reduced in size to cover the area northeast of Saigon, and the newly created IV Corps taking over the west and southwest.

Here's what they found: Brooks visited Abdul Salam Rocketi, a former Taliban corps commander, in his office.

Rocketi is a former Taliban corps commander who served in the southern Zabul Province and, later, in the strategic eastern city of Jalalabad.

Mr. Gunard, a former Swiss Army corps commander, was professor of war and politics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, when he became head of the all‐Swiss international committee.

In recent months, Hifter has gathered allies in his stronghold of Beida, 125 miles east of Benghazi, from among a disenfranchised former officers corps.