Sentence examples for hmcs from inspiring English sources

On the bridge of HMCS Toronto, the frigate leading Operation Nanook, Commander Alex Grant points to a chart of Frobisher Bay that is largely blank except for the narrow shipping channel linking Iqaluit to the open sea.

Passage of the Naval Service Act allowed the purchase in 1910 of two ageing British cruisers for training purposes, one for each coast His Majesty's Canadian Ships (HMCS) Niobe in Halifax and Rainbow in Esquimalt.

In 1954 the first passage by a deep-draught vessel was made by HMCS Labrador, a Canadian naval icebreaker.

Christopher King, the chairman of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) and headteacher of Leicester Grammar School, will argue that markers should be paid more so that exam boards can demand a higher standard from them.

Mr Harman, who is also headmaster of Uppingham School, said: "Many HMC schools will continue to offer the IGCSE as experience tells us it is rigorous and offers a good basis for sixth form study. "We know what works for our pupils and will always continue to provide a range of the best and most suitable courses, regardless of the vagaries of political decision making".

The ISC census combines data from around half of private schools in the UK, with members from the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) which includes high-profile private schools such as Eton, Roedean and Manchester Grammar, as well as from the Girls Schoolss Association and the Independent Association of Prep Schools.

As chairman of the Hyundai Motor Corp-oration (HMC) for nearly 30 years (1967-96), he built a small local assembler into the world's seventh largest carmaker.

Professor Smithers was commissioned to examine the issue by the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC) and the Girls Schools Association GSASA).

HMC oversees the university's $26 billion endowment fund, the largest of any school in the world.

He may have to make more friends among them now, given Harvard's hefty stake in hedge funds and the possibility that he will have to recruit from their ranks—already a daunting task, given HMC's high visibility and limited compensation.

But on October 14th, the university named a surprising successor: Mohamed El-Erian, manager of a $28 billion debt portfolio at PIMCO, a fund-management firm specialising in bonds.Mr Meyer, who took three top bond managers and HMC's chief risk officer with him, was spectacularly successful.