Sentence examples for nco from inspiring English sources

The most important industrial method for the production of hydrogen is the catalytic steam hydrocarbon process, in which gaseous or vaporized hydrocarbons are treated with steam at high pressure over a nickel catalyst at 650° 950° C to produce carbon oxides and hydrogen: CnH2n+2 + nH2O → nCO + (2n + 1 H2; CnH2n+2nH2O→H2O→ nCO2 + (3n + 1 H2.

Another important process for hydrogen production is the noncatalytic partial oxidation of hydrocarbons under elevated pressures: CnH2n+2 + (n/2)O2→ nCO + (n + 1 H2.

This meant that if you were being bullied by an NCO you could only report it to another NCO who more often than not was a close colleague of the perpetrator".

It is the reason every officer in a command position is paired with a more experienced NCO.

"There was a reluctance by trainees to complain against NCOs; those who did complain about a senior NCO were vulnerable to reprisals and received an ineffective response by their immediate superiors.

A sergeant, he took temporary command of his platoon after the senior NCO was killed before his eyes.

Half of it is composed of officers, compared with a quarter in most countries, and it has no career non-commissioned officers (NCOs), who normally provide the backbone of experience and communication between officers and soldiers.

Yet attempts to create a more professional force and better NCOs have been only partly successful.

Some 650 Colombian officers and NCOs go on training courses in the United States every year.

On the other hand, in operational terms the Afghans work well at the tactical level, and NCOs, the backbone of any army, are improving.

They announced the firing of three generals and 24 other officers or NCOs, in the biggest purge of the army for a decade.