Sentences with word «commandant»

A commandant is someone who is in charge and holds a high position of authority or command, typically in a military or prison setting. Full definition
This was disclosed by Mr John Adewoye, Oyo State Commandant of NSCDC, on Thursday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan.
Oyo State Commandant of Peace Corps of Nigeria, Patriot (Dr.) Oludare Adesina on Monday reacted to the decline of presidential assent to the bill seeking to make the organization a government approved agency by President Muhammadu Buhari.
John Fryer Jr.: Actually, I was an educator in various Air Force assignments, beginning with my first tour as an instructor pilot and academic instructor and continuing through assignments as commandant of the National War College and interim president of the National Defense University.
The state Commandant said five Dane guns, several local bullets a local dagger and series of charms were recovered from the suspects when they were apprehended.
Then he has another, played by Michael Fassbender, in a portrait of a man so sexually and ideologically twisted, and so pleased with himself, that he calls to mind Ralph Fiennes» death - camp commandant in «Schindler's List.»
Student Niamh Proctor carried the ensign of the British Torch of Remembrance alongside other military associations at the cemetery where many wreaths were laid including those by Commandant General of the Royal Marines Major General Charlie Stickland and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports — The Lord Boyce.
Oddly triangulated between Schindler's relationship with his workers, most prominently his accountant, Itzhak Stern (Ben Kingsley), and the brutal Nazi commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), the film allows Spielberg to study life in the ghetto, the concentration camps, and the Nazi aristocracy, but more potently dissects the limitations of fiscal success and artistic power, not to mention the valley that too often separates the personal and the logical.
Elba was nominated for SAG, BAFTA, Independent Spirit, and Golden Globe awards for his role as the child soldier commandant in the Netflix original but missed a nod from Oscar.
But with the exception of Marine Commandant General James Amos, the opinions of the service chiefs were mixed, and absolutely none of them have endorsed reinstating DADT, which is what Pawlenty is proposing.
NSF has asked the Coast Guard, which operates the Healy, to send the ship south to Antarctica this winter, Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Robert Papp Jr. told a Senate committee yesterday.
The test has been in the works since at least September, when Marine Commandant Gen. Neller dropped a public hint.
HUNDREDS OF SES JOB OPENINGS ON USAJOBS The hundreds of SES job openings listed in late January 2017 on USAJOBs included everything from deputy assistant commandant [NS1] for human resources at the Department of Homeland Security, to director of the Office of Research at the Department of Energy, to assistant inspector general for investigations at the Department of Veterans Affairs.
But «primarily, it's what we call pangas,» Vice Adm. Charles Ray, the Coast Guard deputy commandant for operations, said during the hearing.
Late last year, Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller cautioned Marines stationed in Norway that he saw a «big - ass fight» looming and urged them to prepare.
Name - dropping may not always be the most convincing argument, yet one has to show respect for any movement that can draw to itself support from such notables as Marshall McLuhan, Buckminster Fuller and Major General Franklin Davis, former commandant of the United States War College.
The NSCDC commandant said the command had been on the trail of the other fleeing suspects and assured that they would soon be arrested.
Consider now Commandant Amon Goeth (Ralph Fiennes), the Nazi who has power over the Krakow ghetto and later over the camp where the Jews are moved.
Alex by Pierre LeMaitre • MacLehose Press • 9/3 When Alex Prévost is kidnapped, beaten and trapped in a wooden cage hanging from the ceiling of an abandoned building, her only hope of escape is Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven.
The senior officers comprised the Commissioner of Police (COMPOL) Ebonyi State Mr Titus Lamorde, Commander 44 Engineer Brigade Brigadier General Mark Mamman, Assistant Commissioner of Police Operations Ebonyi State Mr Enyinnaya Adiagu, representative of Ebonyi State's Director of State Security Services (SDS) and Mr Joseph Oleseni, Commandant Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corp Ebonyi Srate Command.
The details: Based on the Uzodinma Iweala novel of the same name, Beasts Of No Nation follows a young orphan (Abraham Attah) forced to be a child soldier in an unnamed African country under the watch of a brutal commandant (Idris Elba).
Sent to the Devil's Island penal colony, Dr. Karloff runs afoul of sadistic commandant James Stephenson, who seems obsessed by the guillotine (an execution sequence is one of the film's longest scenes).
With a dovecote in the roof and a space for foxes and other wide animals below, it was commissioned by the camp commandant for the amusement of his children and his fellow SS officers.
My mother was a nurse and my father Commandant of the Canadian Forces Medical Services School.
IF you believe in the 10 commandants then you should denounce anyone who kills.
He spent 35 years on active duty, ultimately becoming Commandant of the Canadian Forces Medical Services School.
Colonel Fritsch, the Camp Commandant accompanied by Officer Palitsch, brought me to attention.
Commandant Martin Servaz, a charismatic city cop from nearby Toulouse fond of quoting Latin, can't believe he has been called out over the death of an animal.
When you both having a large time together, why stick with commandant hour?
But the Claptraps have a plan, they began reanimating the dead such as Dr. Ned, General Knoxx and Commandant Steele and adding Claptrap style body parts to them!
Brigadier - General Johnson Olawunmi, former NYSC DG, according to the letter will move to the Nigerian Army School of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, as acting commandant.
Godwin Nwachukwu, Bayelsa Commandant, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), said on Sunday that the command arrested 30 suspects...
And because a Spielberg film, especially one about the Holocaust, wouldn't be complete without a villain, there is Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth, a purely evil commandant at a concentration camp who spends his mornings leisurely picking off Jews from on high for target practice.
After the ghetto is evacuated and shut down, they are sent to Plaszow, which is overseen by a coolly brutal SS commandant named Amon Goeth.
Surprisingly (not because they weren't famous but because I didn't know they were from Finland), right behind him in popularity are two actors: 50's horror film hostess and star of «Plan 9 from Outer Space,» Vampira and George Gaynes, probably best known as Commandant Lassard from the «Police Academy» films and the adoptive guardian of TV's «Punky Brewster.»
«Intense and intellectual, Commandant Servaz revisits his past amours in a Pyrenees university town in this clever atmospheric thriller.
Playing the strategic card game, two players can battle each other to determine who is the better commandant.
There are memorials to General Nelson Miles the Indian fighter, Major Archie Butts, a military aide to Presidents Teddy Roosevelt and Taft who sank with the Titanic, and even more obscurely, U.S. Marine Commandant George Barnett and General Hugh Scott, honored for his proficiency in «Indian sign language.»
When an expert in Jewish law asked Jesus, «What is the greatest commandant
The primary analogy used is of a Japanese concentration camp commandant punishing only one man rather than the whole group when, at the eleventh hour that (innocent) man (falsely) owned up.
Instead we had some female commandant, barking orders and flexing her authority.
Beyond these four contributions all desirable from the character of life confronted with the love commandants is the vision and promise of overcoming life in the Kingdom of God.
Thanks to the progressive, fluid football of sides like Barcelona, Germany and Bayern it became popular to play midfield commandants like Busquets who work doggedly with an eye to tactical play, coverage and building an attack.
We have to work extremely hard to get proper nutrition, which is much harder and requires much more knowledge than a food commandant could every imagine.
Mr Agbaran Alao, the Zonal Commandant of the agency, also told newsmen in Osogbo that 26 victims were rescued.
«It has been brought to the notice of Headquarters of Depot Nigerian Army that criminal minded individuals are parading themselves as relatives to the Depot Commandant, Brig - Gen.
The Assistant Corp Commandant, Keffi Unit command, Abdulatef Awodi, disclosed this while speaking with journalists in Keffi.
«I got a report from my men in the field that two explosions rocked the pipeline located in Southern Ijaw,» Bayelsa state NSCDC commandant Desmond Agu told AFP.
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