Sentence examples for senior copper from inspiring English sources

You look like Andy Hayman, the senior copper asked during that select committee phone hacking inquiry if he had ever received any money from a media organisation.

Unlike Mr Davidson, Mr Sullivan has now been nicked, on suspicion of bribing public officials, and perhaps he received his briefing for that story while standing a senior copper one of those swanky meals to which Dame Elizabeth referred before Leveson.

He went partly because the Conservatives have fingered him as a hostile senior copper after the Damian Green affair - where Quick was in command - and because Quick alleged Tory dirty tricks against him in the Mail on Sunday, a charge he later withdrew.

Oddly, for someone who represents senior coppers, Mr Fox welcomes the changes.

Giving out more might harm relations with the public, senior coppers say.

Others complain that training in new laws is distracting.What senior coppers really want is a reorganisation of their own.

Senior coppers nowadays end up with columns to augment their pensions, lesser ranks take the cash up front.

Only a few brave senior coppers dare to challenge that for fear of losing resources and public confidence.

The news that Sir Bernard Hogan-Howillill be leaving his job as commissioner of the Metropolitan police is just the latest indication that it's tougher at the top these days than in the gentler times when senior coppers slipped quietly away after a jolly retirement party at Scotland Yard.

Michael Farmer – hedge funder and copper magnate, senior treasurer of the Tory party – has donated £6.5m.

Says a senior executive in Vedanta's copper making arm Sterlite Industries, "His presence changes all equations".