Sentences with phrase «british military officer»

The quest for such a magical land is what drove British military officer, archaeologist, and explorer Percy Fawcett (Charlie Hunnam, «Crimson Peak») to search the Amazon jungle looking for a golden city rumored to have predated modern man.

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A former Russian military officer — who had been imprisoned there for spying for the British, then given refuge in the U.K. under a 2010 spy swap — was found critically ill on a bench at a shopping center in the west of England.

Also present at the meeting were Kushner, Manafort, British music publicist Rob Goldstone, former Soviet military intelligence officer and lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin, Russian translator Anatoli Samachornov, and possibly a representative of Russia's wealthy Agalarov family, which first requested that the meeting be arranged.

Phillips, who was a leading military intelligence expert on Russia also stated his belief that much of the dossier compiled by the retired British intelligence officer is accurate and that it describes accurately how Russia develops compromising information on someone they have targeted.

A senior officer in the British army has said he is «bitterly disappointed» in the government's approach to culling the nation's military.

The UK has not deployed control equipment requiring codes to be sent before weapons can be used, such as the U.S. Permissive Action Link, which if installed would preclude the possibility that military officers could launch British nuclear weapons without authorisation.

He has explained this to British and American military officers, Iraqi officials, and even security officials at the London Olympics.

A brilliant drama of sadism and brutality unleashed by a vicious, bullying officer (Ian Hendry) in an isolated North African British military - prison stockade.

Media reports reveal that Captain William Carver, a veteran officer of the British Army, served as a spokesman for Veterans for the Britain in the runup to the 2016 referendum; a LinkedIn page under the name William Carver lists both the same military service and work with Veterans for Britain.

This generous Victorian home in Oxford was once the family home of T.E Lawrence, the noted British archaeologist, military officer, diplomat, and writer, whose life was immortalised in the classic 1962 film «Lawrence of Arabia» starring Peter O'Toole.