Sentence examples for officer away from inspiring English sources

But the action was very close to the Americans, who prepared to defend the column and ushered the officer away.

He said he just wanted to say something to get the officer away from his building so he could go inside and decide what to do.

But those notes might be incomplete, perhaps out of laziness or because a more pressing radio call pulled an officer away from recording information about the traffic stop.

(AP) — Yahoo has lured a chief financial officer away from the Altera Corporation to fill a crucial role in its new management team.

Mr. German worries that an effort like this "moves the police officer away from his core function, to enforce the law, into being an intelligence officer gathering information about people".

They also managed to snatch Brian Monnin, who will be joining as Chief Product Officer, away from his executive position at Brightcove.

Republicans said the immigration agency was rushing the background checks and taking officers away from cases of foreigners who followed the steps to apply through the legal system.

They've been taking police officers away from routine operational response policing and putting officers into specialist squads or into neighbourhood policing.

Focusing on minority members, said a second officer who was interviewed by The Times, "takes officers away from the real threat, and we could miss a terrorist we are looking for".

Added training, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly said, means pulling officers away from their regular jobs, and paying overtime for someone else to fill in.

In Los Angeles, the police department has been overwhelmed by calls about suspected anthrax powder, each taking several officers away from other duties for hours at a time.