Sentence examples for high officers from inspiring English sources

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'.

With the help of the guard regiments and high officers and with the financial support of foreign diplomats (in particular the French envoy), Elizabeth overthrew the infant Ivan VI and the regent Anna Leopoldovna in 1741.

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.

The highest officers of the emerging state were the ō-muraji and the ō-omi, the heads and representatives of those two groups.

The Emperor provided two million golden francs to the higher officers and 200 francs to each soldier, with large pensions for the widows of the fallen.

Higher officers attempted to move the units back in position but were unsuccessful in the face of mounting North Korean resistance.

Try to highlight your positive features among your colleagues and higher officers.