Sentence examples for prefect from inspiring English sources

Kermorgant lined up the free-kick and struck a right-footed shot that beat the wall with a prefect arc to elude the clutches of David Stockdale and Bournemouth were on their way to another victory in this glorious season.

The president is trying to distance himself from a counterfeit-note scandal going back to 1997 that involves Hassan Fadoul Kitir, a former minister and the prefect of the Ouaddai region.

The son of a Grenoble accountant, and grandson of a chauffeur to a local prefect and of a church bell-ringer, he derives his ambition in part from his relatively modest background.

The prefect of Corfu has insisted that his first responsibility is to his voters, and that he has a clear mandate from them to handle the question as he sees fit.

Occasionally, on delicate issues, he would hide behind his boss, the prefect; but in general he was dependable and "correct".

It had been brought by the conservative opposition in protest at the government's handling of a scandal in Corsica, which led to the sacking and detention of the prefect there.

A strike leader was shot dead at a barricade on February 17th, and emergency workers and police trying to help him came under fire, according to the local prefect.

In early 1999, as Corsica's prefect (in effect its governor), he had allegedly authorised five gendarmes to burn down two restaurants illegally built on the island's beaches.

The target of their bile is the prefect, Giovanni Troiani.

Through political miscalculation, Mr Morales has driven the departments of Cochabamba and Chuquisaca into the opposition camp; even the prefect of La Paz was critical of the way the constitution was approved.

He was prefect in Corsica, in Morocco and in Algeria; after 1958 he assumed charge of the Paris police, under orders from de Gaulle to "hold the city" against rioting Algerian nationalists.