Sentence examples for substantive rank from inspiring English sources

Cadets failing to meet the prerequisites by the deadline revert to their previously held substantive rank.

Whittle was promoted to the substantive rank of corporal two weeks later.

He was promoted to the substantive rank of captain on 1 May 1933.

Browning was granted the substantive rank of captain on 24 November 1920.

He was granted the substantive rank of general on 2 April 1997.

His substantive rank remained that of lieutenant; he would not be promoted to the substantive rank of captain in the PMF until 30 September 1920, and promotion to major would not come until 1 July 1932.

Second, it is the only substantive, front-rank nation run as an international tax haven.

Ranked substantive air commodore and honorary air vice marshal, Cole was officially discharged from the RAAF on 17 April 1946.

The rank became substantive in July 1937.

In September the following year he was made Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff (DCNS) and raised to acting captain; his rank became substantive in June 1944.

The rank became substantive the following year, when he was appointed Staff Officer Directorate of Works and Buildings at RAAF Headquarters, Melbourne, responsible for selection and improvement of airfield sites.