Sentences with phrase «headed by a civilian»

The institute is comprised of eight schools of undergraduate education, each of which is headed by a civilian dean who's responsible for «planning and implementing assigned programs in foreign language training and curriculum development, implementing academic and administrative policy, and managing the school's annual manpower and budget allocations.»

The court adopted the reasoning in U.S. v. Chon, 210 F. 3d 990 (U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit 2000), which rejected the notion that the PCA would not apply on the basis that the officer was a member of the Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS), which is a largely civilian operation headed by civilian command.

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On the one hand, we see non-state actors, as well as warlords and heads of state who use relatively unsophisticated means to gain their ends by targeting, terrorizing, and killing noncombatants and, as in the destruction of the World Trade Center towers or the bombing of the Madrid trains, intentionally causing lasting property damage, civilian deaths, and widespread fear.

Wiley is taking a job heading the NYPD Civilian Complaint Review Board, filling a two - month vacancy created by the resignation of its chairman, Richard D. Emery, in April.

The head of the sergeant's union took issue with a tweet by the Civilian Complaint Review Board on reporting unconstitutional searches.

This new study of non-military, civilian trauma patients visiting the emergency department builds on recent research conducted by Dr. Samadani, supported through the Cohen Veterans Center, which found that the use of this novel eye - tracking technology could reveal edema, or swelling, in the brain as a potential biomarker for assessing brain function and monitoring recovery in people with head injuries.

The civilians are headed up by Mark Rylance's Dawson, a stiff - upped - lipped father who brings his sons (notably the sadly naive Barry Keoghan, worlds away from his turn in The Killing of a Sacred Deer) with him on their valiant quest — and it's their tiny decisions, what truths to tell the troops they pick up (watch out for a shell - shocked Cillian Murphy), and their growing understanding of the task they're undertaking, that brings soul to these events.