Sentence examples for high officer from inspiring English sources

By Van Santer, E. J. Kahn, Jr., and Harold Ross The New Yorker, July 19 , 1941P. 7 On the weekend following the invasion of Russia, a high officer in the Navy Dept.

A somewhat similar theme, used for pious edification, is that of the legendary St. Eustace, reputedly a high officer under the Roman emperor Trajan, who lost his position, property, and family only to regain them after many tribulations, trials, and dangers.

MacPherson reminds us that in 1992, three years after Stone's death, a high officer of the former Soviet Union's former spy service, the K.G.B., revealed that from time to time in the 1960's, Stone did accept luncheon invitations, and the K.G.B. picked up the tab.

All high officers of the realm were to swear allegiance to the king and the council.

"Australians now loathe and detest any Englishman wearing red," he wrote; the "countless high officers and conceited young cubs" were "plainly only playing at War".

During a drunken revel characteristic of the rough Macedonian court, an Athenian woman named Thais, the mistress of one of the high officers present, made a startling suggestion.

The young soldier thus gained unusual access to troops at the front as well as high officers who feuded over the rights to his services.

Mystic or charlatan, he concluded that the Siberian peasant was 'a maker and breaker of cabinet ministers, governor-generals, bishops, and other high officers of state and church'.

He railed that high officers in the city and state governments were against him.

"A list of 200 names that include the high officers in our village has been set and all of these names are to be killed".

Higher Officer HM Revenue and Customs.