Sentence examples for post lieutenant from inspiring English sources

The permanent commander of the post, Lieutenant Colonel J. H. Cannan was absent on leave and the acting commander, Lieutenant Colonel G. J. Burnage was wounded in the fighting.

The other candidate for the top defence post is Lieutenant General Sir Nick Houghton, chief of joint operations and formerly deputy commander of US-led British forces in southern Iraq.

She served until 1994, when she ran for and won the post of lieutenant governor.

Elected to the largely ceremonial post of lieutenant governor, Mr. Paterson, unlike Mr. Spitzer, has no sure mandate of his own.

Risch then returned to the post of lieutenant governor, holding it until he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2008.

McDougall took up the post of lieutenant governor of Rupert's Land and the Northwest Territories in 1869, but his attempts to exert his authority met with resistance from the Red River settlers, who repelled him at Pembina.

Mr. Dewhurst, 66, a wealthy rancher and businessman, has held the powerful elected post of lieutenant governor for nine years and was endorsed by Mr. Perry and most other top party leaders as well as business and farm groups.

Before the parade, in the Police Athletic League parking lot that served as a staging area, I was introduced to Loretta Weinberg, who is Corzine's running mate for the newly created post of lieutenant governor.

In 1816, Slaughter was again elected to the post of lieutenant governor over Richard Hickman and James Garrard.

Coxe, a proprietor of West Jersey, considered Dudley for the post of lieutenant governor there.

Only two individuals held the post of Lieutenant Governor of New Jersey during its colonial history.