Sentences with phrase «army officer from»

Stephen Phillips QC, a barrister and former army officer from London whose wife comes from Lincolnshire.

Gibson, a highly decorated retired U.S. Army officer from Kinderhook, is reaching out to voters as a pragmatic, middle - of - the - road Republican more interested in results than ideology.

The son of Salvation Army Officers from the northern suburbs of Melbourne, Peter Norman grew up in an Australian cultural context similar to that of South African Apartheid.

Further, Uganda military has banned all the accused army officers from future Somalia deployments.

Not exact matches

I ran across a great quote the other day, purportedly from a British Army officer's annual fitness review: «His men would follow him anywhere, but only out of morbid curiosity.»

A retired Army officer, for instance, who wanted to take a post as a visiting professor at a foreign university, would have to jump through multiple hoops, seeking permission from both the Army and the State Department.

Wexley has taken on some unusual projects — a mass paper - airplane launch, for instance — but the company's founders were still surprised when they got a call from a U.S. Army colonel who had read about them in Inc. and wanted to send his communications officer for a little on - the - job training.

Each listing includes the item (s) to be delivered, the number of miles from point A to point B, and the price to be paid, explains David Hater, a 50 - year - old retired Army officer who's delivered more than 400 gigs for Roadie, earning anywhere from $ 8 for a local delivery to $ 400 for «delivering a few extra boxes and making a stop or two along the way» on interstate trips.

As the vision for the connecting tunnel between Folkestone and Calais became more concrete, Ministry of Defence (MoD) civil servants and senior military officers drew up the nuclear plan in order to thwart a possible invasion by the Soviet army from Calais, The Independent has discovered.

Christopher is privileged to have served his country as an Officer in the Canadian Army (Reserve) and was a recipient of the «Top 40 Under 40» award from Business In Vancouver in 2017.

As a young military intelligence officer at the time, watching from a makeshift army base in Kuwait not far from the Iraq border.

Having preached the sovereign grace of God — grace for a Syrian army officer or a poor pagan woman at Zarephath — Jesus demonstrates that he is free even from the community that professes to be people of the Book.

No one knows whether ordinary soldiers, even from what is no longer in any normal sense a citizen army, would obey clearly illegal orders to oust an elected government or whether the officer corps would ever have sufficient confidence to issue such orders.

An officer in the czarist army who left Russia for Palestine in 1912, Trumpeldor fought with the British in World War I, winning from his commanding officer praise as the bravest man he ever knew.

Christie, a British Army officer, collected recipes from India and used them to prepare elaborate banquets for his fellow members of the Edinburgh Cap and Gown Club in Scotland.

«The attention of the Nigerian army has been drawn to some stories in the media that it is withdrawing its troops from Exercise Egwu Eke II, crediting such information to Abia state governor and the general officer commanding 82 division Nigerian army.

What was for much of the 20th century a bureaucratic and careerist behemoth dedicated to refighting the Last War, the Army has now morphed into a relatively nimble force that's opened itself to criticism and rethought its tactical doctrine, and that values the ideas and initiatives of younger officers fresh from the harsh classroom of combat.

Robertson, a former army officer, didn't hold back, parrying away questions from the Labour benches.

But Mali's elected government contained many former military officers, and the truth is that the army have been the main force in Mali politics since independence from France in the 1960s.

As a former Army officer with tours of duty in the Mideast, Ryan knows from guns.

«In view of these allegations, the Chief of Army Staff, ai set up a 10 - man Panel comprising senior Army officers (both serving and retired) and members from the National Human Rights Commission, Nigerian Bar Association and other Civil Society Organizations, to investigate the veracity of the allegations made against the Nigerian Army.

But a statement from the Ministry of Defence on Monday, signed by Col. Tukur Gusau, the Public Relations Officer to the Minister, Mansur Dan - Ali, said the CDS, Olonisakin, the army chief, Buratai, the air chief, Abubakar, and the naval chief, Ete - Ibas, would continue in office.

Officers of Nigerian Army's Guard's Brigade have foiled an attempted invasion of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja by heavily armed Fulani herdsmen from both the Nasarawa and the Gwagwalada axis.

From 1964 to 1966, Sal served in the United States Army as a Military Police Officer in the 502 Armored Division and later in the 7th Infantry Division after he was deployed to South Korea.

Schumer quoted at length from a letter Union Army officer Sullivan Ballou penned to his wife during the Civil War, a week before his death at Bull Run.

A former army officer and merchant banker, the son of an MP and a collector of fine wine, Mr Mitchell has the feel and flavour of a Conservative MP from the era of Francis Urquhart, which indeed was when he was first elected.

The agency which has in its service officers from Nigeria Intelligence Agency (NIA), the Nigerian Army, Navy and Airforce, had a full attendance at the meeting.

Director Army Public Relations, Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman said in a statement that the launching was part of the activities at the just concluded Chief of Army Staff's Combined Second and Third Quarter Conference 2017 which took place from 18th - 20th September 2017 at the Army Headquarters Command Officers» Mess Abuja.

It is the APC Federal Government that has eliminated all our officers from the Army, that has prematurely retired all our meritorious officers from the Customs, that has systematically removed all South - Easterners who on the strings of hard work rose to the pinnacle of their career in the Ministries, Departments and Agencies of the APC Federal Government.

Chief of the general staff, General Sir Richard Dannatt, said: «The army expects only the very highest standards from all officers and soldiers and any failure to achieve those standards, however rare, is unacceptable to us.

As a young Army Officer, I took part from the beginning to the end in our tragic civil war costing about 2m lives, resulting in fearful destruction and untold suffering.

«I know from my experience as a civilian army medical officer that the surest way to have unhappy service personnel is to have unhappy service families.

Fifteen armed men dressed in military fatigues, suspected to be army officers, have stormed the private residence of the main opposition National Democratic Congress» National Organiser, Mr Kofi Adams, and seized all his vehicles in the company of four alleged National Security officers and personnel from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA).

Rather than conduct a rigorous enquiry into how a military officer whose entire career had been in the army, could afford those purchases, the Minister of Defense in a statement published in Vanguard Newspapers on June 27, 2016 dismissed the issue as «the allegations was part (sic) of attempts by unpatriotic elements to distract the leadership of the armed forces from the successes of the war against terrorism...».

As a retired military officer, Flynn is prohibited under the emoluments clause of the Constitution from accepting payment from a foreign government without advance permission from both the secretary of State and the secretary of the Army.

In August 2010, Mercer warned that dissident Irish terror groups may be planning to attack the party conferences including the Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham based on intelligence from serving army officers.

Own troops celebrated Christmas on 25 Dec 16 with the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and other Principal Staff Officers (PSOs) from Army Headquarters / Corps Commanders / General Officers Commanding in all their locations within the Theatre.

Lord Dannatt, who was Britain's senior military officer from 2006 until 2009, called for a rethink of the coalition's move to reduce the size of the regular Army by 20,000 to 82,000 amid Russia's uncompromising actions in Ukraine.

It was gathered from an impeccable source that Buratai's statement came on the heels of intelligence reports that some politicians were holding secret meetings with top Army officers due to the absence of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Upon his return from the war, in 19s5, he was in charge of the demobilization of returning officers in Lagos a duty he performed excellently, this earned him an award of Exemplary Character of the Army Fourth Brigade.

«From the foregoing, I wish to state that there was no act of illegality perpetuated by the Chief of Army Staff, Chief of Naval staff or Chief of the Air Staff, regarding extending the length of service for officers.

There was shock and misgivings in the Nigerian Army, with some hinting of ethnic and religious cleansing, as close to 200 officers from Major Generals to Major, were retired Friday, following what the authorities said was a consequence of service exigencies.

Just days after receiving our demand to repeal the SAFE Act from Senator Kathy Marchione, and what amounted to a small patriot army, the governor, exhibiting a lack of respect, wisdom and discretion, cut a closed - door, back - room deal with Senator Dean Skelos, who then opened NY's Senate floor for a vote on a bill that would divide Republican Senators upstate from downstate and create a separate, unequal class of citizens: the law enforcement officer class.

Commandant of the Army War College, Major General John Enenche while noting that participants are made up of 51 army officers, 1 Naval officer, 1 airforce officer and 1 officer from the Federal Road Safety Commission, stated that the contemporary security environment in Nigeria and the world in present day, can be aptly referred to as complex, due to the nature of threats and advancement in technolArmy War College, Major General John Enenche while noting that participants are made up of 51 army officers, 1 Naval officer, 1 airforce officer and 1 officer from the Federal Road Safety Commission, stated that the contemporary security environment in Nigeria and the world in present day, can be aptly referred to as complex, due to the nature of threats and advancement in technolarmy officers, 1 Naval officer, 1 airforce officer and 1 officer from the Federal Road Safety Commission, stated that the contemporary security environment in Nigeria and the world in present day, can be aptly referred to as complex, due to the nature of threats and advancement in technology.

With parents hailing from Kogi State, he attended Army Children's School in Maiduguri and later on joined Command Secondary School, Jos.. He joined the Nigeria Defence Academy in 1998 and became a commissioned officer in 2003.

«Submitting the report, the Chairman of the Board, Major General Adeniyi Oyebade, the General Officer Commanding 1 Division Nigerian Army, stated that the Board placed advertorials in the media requesting for memoranda from the public before they commenced sitting.

The police boss said that from the suspect's background, the police investigation revealed that Andrew was a dismissed officer from the Nigerian Army.

The Army Officer, who had worked at a time, in the Office of the National Security Adviser (ONSA), and was temporarily attached to the Defence Intelligence Agency (NIA) wants the court to declare that his arrest, detention and continued detention from 23rd December last year till date by the Respondents, without reasons and granting him administrative bail within 24 hours of his arrest and detention are illegal, wrongful, unlawful and constitute a blatant violation of his fundamental rights.

Parker shifted his focus from cardiac to brain research after two tours in Afghanistan as a U.S. Army infantry officer.

«An officer and a gentlewoman from the Viking army in Birka.»