Sentence examples for model for colonel from inspiring English sources

I tell Collins that he reminds me of the late Colonel David Hackworth, the much-decorated Vietnam commander who was supposedly the model for Colonel Kilgore in Apocalypse Now.

But his visit to Aracataca was decisive in creating in his imagination the idealised world that so many of his readers have come to love.Aracataca was to mutate into Macondo the name plucked from a railside banana plantation and his grandfather provided the model for Colonel Aureliano Buendía in "One Hundred Years of Solitude", published in 1967.

Film fans may recall Banastre Tarleton as the model for genocidal maniac Colonel Tavington in Mel Gibson's absurd American independence drama The Patriot.

Mr. Rev suggested I would be "surprised" to learn the history that he lays out about the fate of Karl Wolff, the model for the Nazi colonel in the film, Hans Landa.

But for Colonel Norrie, the results, while imperfect, were a model of success at this stage of the conflict, as American troops prepare to leave.

An says he learned about using dogs for intelligence work from C.I.A. agent Colonel Edward Lansdale — the supposed model for Graham Greene's Quiet American.

The other lieutenant colonel was Philip Cochran, the model for the character Flip Corkin in the popular comic strip "Terry and the Pirates".

There's also a review of assassination theories and an interview with the White House insider, Colonel Fletcher Prouty, the principal model for the highly experienced soldier "Mr X" who advised both Garrison and Stone (though his testimony should be approached with some caution).

Vincent was one of Claire Chennault's two top fighter commanders in the China Burma India Theater of World War II, and served as the model for two comic strip characters by Milton Caniff: "Colonel Vince Casey", and "Brigadier General P.G. 'Shanty' Town".

Venezuela's support for Colonel Qaddafi is fueling tension here.

As for Colonel Reb, his fans are not surrendering.