Sentence examples for served active from inspiring English sources

Barack Obama's win over John McCain marks the third straight defeat of a candidate who served active duty in Vietnam.

I had an encounter with a fan who had served active duty in the military and had been deployed to a war zone that he described as hell...right before he had been deployed he was given a cassette copy of our Black Sunday album, which he said he had to keep an eye on where he was based because other soldiers wanted to take it from him.

Three of the four most recent commissioners served active-duty military tours: William J. Bratton and Bernard B. Kerik in the Army, and Raymond W. Kelly in the Marines.

He was 93 and was the longest serving active judge on the federal bench.

Flynn attended US Naval OCS to become a lieutenant serving active duty for three years.

They will face some skeptics at Leatherneck magazine, which has been serving active and retired marines for 86 years.

Not surprisingly, then, online brokerages have in the last several months rolled out an array of services meant not just to serve active traders, but also to attract average traders to more complex financial instruments, like options.

Executives of Tricare, a managed care company that serves active and retired military personnel, and WellPoint, a huge health insurer, said they had found no evidence in their records that patients given Avandia had suffered more heart attacks.

Female infantry cannot serve active combat duty in war.

"Even though it's different, it's still trying to serve active consumption," said McLaughlin.

It is, however, not designed as a tutorial system and serves active and curious users best.