Sentence examples for substantive wing from inspiring English sources
On 18 August, he was promoted to war substantive wing commander.
Jones was still only a substantive wing commander and acting air commodore when he succeeded to the role, leapfrogging several more senior officers including his friend Bill Bostock, now an air vice-marshal and Deputy Chief of the Air Staff.
However, Bostock's closeness to Burnett, who had made no secret of his contempt for John Curtin's Federal Labor government, damaged his chances for selection and his friend, George Jones, then only a substantive wing commander and acting air commodore, took the position.
Johnson was given a permanent commission by the RAF after the war (initially as a squadron leader, although retaining his wartime substantive rank as wing commander, and later confirmed in that rank), becoming OC Tactics at the Central Fighter Establishment.
He had reverted to a substantive rank of wing commander since leaving Japan, as the RAAF shrank dramatically with demobilisation and many senior officers lost the temporary or acting ranks they had gained in wartime.
By 1945, he had passed the statutory retirement age for his substantive rank of wing commander, and was summarily retired from the RAAF along with a number of other senior staff and veterans of World War I including Wrigley and Williams, to make way for the advancement of younger and equally capable officers.
The Post — and it is hardly alone in this view — sees a widening split, both "stylistic [and] substantive," between "the establishment and a newly energized populist wing," led by Senator Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Bill de Blasio.
The most substantive challenge they appear willing to make toward the party's right-most wing is banalities about inflation.
The 5-4 decision that is at the heart of this national employment crisis is the over-stepping of the right wing of the court to stretch a procedural case to change substantive law in a way that adversely impacts today's majority of breadwinners -- women.
Those who would characterize your average lefty as a limousine liberal or blinkered Pollyanna can now add this: According to a new British study of thousands of people in 82 countries, those who identify themselves as left wing are actually a lot more conservative when measured by their professed views on substantive issues.
