Sentence examples for wpc from inspiring English sources
abbreviation
Woman police constable
- Note: WPC is very much replaced by the term PC (police constable)
In 1954 a group of professional black women in Montgomery, the Women's Political Council (WPC), led by Jo Ann Robinson, had protested to the mayor about segregation on the buses, telling him that feeling was so strong that 25 local organisations were discussing a boycott.
"In the UK we have got the legacy of the Lockerbie bombing, the family of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, we have got thousands of people who have been affected by IRA activity over the decades fuelled on Gaddafi's Semtex," he told the BBC.
Investigators looking into the murder of WPc Yvonne Fletcher are closer than they have "ever been" to achieving justice for her family, one of her former colleagues said today.
WPc Fletcher was shot while policing a protest outside the Libyan embassy.
The former Pc was standing just yards from WPc Fletcher when she was gunned down.
Although police investigating the murder of WPc Yvonne Fletcher - who was killed by shots fired from the Libyan People's Bureau in London in 1984 - have visited three times since the revolution in 2011, similar access had not previously been given to the Lockerbie team.
Back at the nick – after the opening titles – Catherine lets rip at the two WPCs who answered the initial call and did the bare minimum to help.
In the most novel scene, two young women sweating in a sauna share their fantasies, which include penises so long they can be used as scarves, and Osama bin Laden as a sex object: the added twist (made apparent by the peaked cap perched on a pile of clothes) is that the women are WPCs.
Contrast that to the scene where one of the errant WPCs offers her resignation: Catherine recognises that her remorse means there's hope for her yet, and talks her round with maternal tenderness.
The World Petroleum Congress WPCC) met there this week, and many of the thousands of participants came to find out about the oil sands of northern Alberta.
The Foreign Secretary also sought to play down concerns that the new Libyan government will refuse to hand over the man suspected of shooting WPC Yvonne Fletcher.
