Sentence examples for the commissaire from inspiring English sources

The first book in the Commissaire Adamsberg series - the sixth to be published here - is a good introduction to this quirky French writer.

COMMISSAIRE YOU SAY > COM – EE – SAIR (rhymes with hair) WHAT IT MEANS > The commissaire is cycling's equivalent of an umpire or a referee.

You climb off the bike followed by the horrible moment when the commissaire takes off your race number... it's an experience that you will never forget".

In the last quarter of the race, the commissaire gradually announced the peloton was closing on the lead group, and we were instructed to speed ahead to the finish.

He raged at the officials, hurled a water bottle to the floor, collapsed in a heap and then had to be restrained by his team mechanic as he advanced towards the commissaire who disqualified him.

The situation is different in continental Europe, particularly in France, where police forces use a dual system of recruitment: entrants may start their careers at the base of the organization and progressively rise higher, or they may use lateral entry for an appointment at the commissaire ("commissioner") level.

I've been told the commissaires would have relegated me if I'd won, but make it a straight sprint.

Sometimes the lines get crossed and the people who make the judgment on that are the commissaires".

It's the commissaires who make the call on a photo finish or declassify a rider for dangerous riding.

"The idea was to talk about the significance and magnitude of the fight against the disease," Armstrong said, "but the commissaires didn't see it that way.

Lines were crossed – rarely has the red sprinters' lane played such a key role – and the commissaires tried to make sense of it all.