Sentence examples for upon colonel from inspiring English sources

Mr. Dabbashi called upon Colonel Qaddafi to step down and leave the country "as soon as possible".

But by summer 1944, Germany's increasingly desperate military situation gave rise to a serious coup attempt by a group centred upon Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg.

Representative John Garamendi, Democrat of California, Representative Walter Jones, Republican of North Carolina, and Representative Jim McGovern, Democrat of Massachusetts, have all been skeptical about the war in the past, but they have seized upon Colonel Davis' views as those of a credible officer with experience on the ground.

As such, it's maybe been too easy for us to look upon Colonel Gaddafi in recent years as a madman who'd mellowed and become ridiculous with age, like Klansmen or Mr Nice.

To desire something, he continues, his melancholic gaze falling again upon the Colonel's daughter, is to lose it.

Upon returning, Colonel John Sevier, who had gained fame as a co-commander at Kings Mountain, was dispatched, along with several thousand militia, to the south on a punitive expedition to the Overhill towns.

The first of the stories was one about a practical joke played by a local correspondent of a small commune in Lorraine upon the American colonel commanding an ammunition dump at a place called Trois-Fontaines.

Except for a few exceptional cases, senior members are only promoted to the grade of CAP colonel upon appointment as wing commander, responsible for the administration of CAP units across an entire state.

Upon promotion to lieutenant colonel in 1989, he was posted to Land Forces Command Headquarters in Ottawa before taking command of the Dragoons in Petawawa in 1990.

*** In the midst of war, the weight of his heritage upon him, the little colonel learned to play with his masks.

With John Lennon glasses and long hair, Postel was nevertheless celebrated as "Colonel Postel" upon his arrival at the Pentagon.