Sentences with phrase «of naval officers»

For the piece, the artist convinced a group of naval officers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army to ride the Dive Coaster, which is located inside of the Shanghai theme park Happy Valley.

Her Zero Panorama series was inspired by an image she found while searching for historical explosions on the Internet — one of naval officers and one of the wives cutting into a cake to celebrate a nuclear testing site — which was deemed obscene by The Washington Post.

The nautical tableaux at Tommy Hilfiger could not but render out a range of naval officer coats and also silk baby doll dresses in the navy blue shade.

In 1769, after the death of her mother, a young Dido Elizabeth Belle (Lauren Julien - Box) is brought to the home of her naval officer father's uncle to be raised as though she were a legitimate daughter.

Other typically British elements include the painted cut out of a naval officer and the bulldog with the British flag, which refer to the Royal Navy and Winston Churchill.

Ross received the Tennessee Bar Association's 2007 - 2008 Harris Gilbert Pro Bono Attorney of the Year award for the successful representation of a naval officer in a high - profile civil rights and whistleblower matter which resulted in investigations by the Inspectors General of both the U.S. Justice and Defense Departments, and investigations by U.S. Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa and the CBS News program «60 Minutes.»

Not exact matches

Sir George Sydenham Clarke, a British officer and colonial administrator at the time, wrote that «the battle of Tsu - shima is by far the greatest and the most important naval event since Trafalgar.»

Captain Jerry Kyd, the Royal Navy officer in charge of HMS Queen Elizabeth, described naval drone warfare as an «absolute inevitability» for his ship, and the British armed forces as a whole «in the near future.»

John Edwards was a gunnery officer on a naval frigate during the Korean War when thoughts of the priesthood first...

The son of a Canadian diplomat, Vanier was educated in Canada, England and France and set out on a career to become a naval officer.

John Edwards was a gunnery officer on a naval frigate during the Korean War when thoughts of the priesthood first began to form in his mind.

... The sole distinguishing characteristic of Morrison's writings is psychological waywardness — derived, it appears from his unhappy childhood as the son of an aloof naval officer... According to his biographers Morrison's chief boyhood pleasure was defying, confounding, and tormenting other people.

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.

[The secretary, treasurer and receiver - general, and the commissary - general, notaries public, and naval officers, shall be chosen annually, by joint ballot of the senators and representatives in one room.

The Merchant Navy officers are seconded from their parent companies and organisations at no cost to the naval operation, and provide a significant and invaluable industry contribution to the success of the counter piracy operation.

forcible or passive resistance to lawful authority; especially: concerted revolt (as of a naval crew) against discipline or a superior officer

After receiving a B.S. in engineering physics in 1953, Gourdine served briefly as a naval officer before returning to science as a doctoral student, also in engineering physics, at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) on a Guggenheim fellowship.

Jacques - Yves Cousteau (11 June 1910 - 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, explorer, ecologist, filmmaker and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water.

Cummings, who served as a naval officer from 1988 to 1999 and was one of the Navy's first female fighter pilots, said the argument that killing at a distance could desensitize soldiers has evolved in tandem with advances in war - fighting technology.

He grew up in San Diego, the son of a career naval officer.

A group of Nazi naval officers and crewmen are stranded on Canadian soil (we have no sympathy for the castaways, inasmuch as we have just seen them refusing food and water to a group of torpedoed British seamen).

2 Guns stars Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as DEA agent and a naval officer caught up in mob dealings on both sides of the border.

Its commander, Capt. Yelland (Kirk Douglas), favours smiting the Japs where they sleep; Cmdr Richard Owens (James Farentino) falls for the secretary (Katharine Ross) of a 1940s senator the time travelers save from a Zero attack; naval intelligence officer Warren Lasky (Martin Sheen) argues for the prime directive; and the senator in question, Chapman (Charles Durning), demands the opportunity to warn Pearl Harbor.

Haunted by the negative reports surrounding his father's death in Vietnam, Maverick pushes the limits of his plane and the patience of his fellow officers while repeatedly defying naval rules and regulations.

Ford hasn't been terribly astute in his choice of roles: You can't blame him, I suppose, for reprising Indiana Jones, but what about «Firewall,» «Hollywood Homicide,» «Random Hearts,» and «K - 19: The Widowmaker,» where he played a Russian naval officer with an authenticity as light as his accent was thick?

After a swanky Manhattan party, Alice (Kidman), wife of well - to - do doctor William Harford (Cruise), confesses to fantasising about a naval officer.

There she meets Roger Livesey, a naval officer on leave and resident of her destination island.

Two years later, on December 24, 1991, I was sitting behind bars in the prison at Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia, awaiting notice of the numerous charges being brought against me for an altercation I had with a naval officer.

Instead of the military (his younger brother and only sibling did become a naval officer), White entered the University of Virginia (UVA), where he majored in English and was aiming at journalism for a career until he discovered an interview of William Faulkner, who had taught at the school, describing Ike McCaslin, protagonist in Go Down, Moses.

The Daily News Stories of courage and loyalty from the war, including Edouard Izac, the American naval officer who escaped from a prisoner of war camp to pass on vital intelligence to his commanders.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force in Vietnam.

Sinha is the son of an Indian naval officer and an English writer.

A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he served as a naval officer in the Mediterranean and with the River Patrol Force... (more)

A biography of the nineteenth - century adventurer and naval officer, James Holman, who traveled alone around the world despite being blind.

Though there is some documentation [specify] that indicates Portuguese sailors introduced the breed to Europe in the 17th century by presenting them to Catherine of Braganza, Queen Consort to King Charles II of England, there is more credible evidence [specify] that the first Japanese Chin were given as gifts by the Emperor of Japan to an American naval officer, Matthew Calbraith Perry, when Perry visited the Orient in 1853 to open trade with the East.

«I think that is one of the awesome benefits of being in the military,» says Andy Sheep, a naval officer who helps run The Military Frequent Flyer blog.

Jacques - Yves Coustea, the popular naval officer and ocean explorer revealed the secrets of the Blue Hole to millions of viewers in 1971 through the television serious The Undersea World of Jacques - Yves Coustea.

The second title, Choice of Broadsides, is «a swashbuckling naval adventure» in which players guide a British officer fighting in the Napoleonic wars and commanding a Royal Navy frigate.

Choice of Broadsides, is «a swashbuckling naval adventure» in which players guide a British officer fighting in the Napoleonic wars and commanding a Royal Navy frigate.

• In a Response column written by a former naval officer, Jeremy Greaves (The military do more than fight — they protect our global interests, 9 February, page 37), we should have made clear that Mr Greaves is also vice-president of communications and PR at the defence and security company EADS UK.

In a political context, these can be both conscious and unconscious: under Margaret Thatcher, for example, portraits of military and naval officers predominated.

His post includes references to the amazing burst of knowledge that came from Elisha Kent Kane, an American naval officer who set out in search of Franklin's crew, with his own craft trapped in ice for nearly two years near the west coast of Greenland.

Tales of spoiled Arctic sovereignty and clandestine meetings is presently all over the media as a result of the charges laid against naval officer, Jeffery Delisle, for allegedly disclosing state secrets to a foreign entity under s. 16 (1) of the newly enacted Security of Information Act.

He was a career naval officer, an Afghanistan veteran who was finishing his doctorate in political science at the University of Minnesota.

This sample navy resume template can be used to create resumes for a wide range of navy job titles like Navy officers, naval administration officers etc

Served as oversight officer in charge of 40 airmen of whom performed daily maintenance jobs related to launching and recovery of naval aircraft onto aircraft carriers.

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Read, transcribed, and annotated primary documents written by 19th century British naval officers and members of Parliament to gain insight into European perceptions of the American Civil War for a future book by Professor Robert Bonner.

Today's Star reports $ % # $ % from the likes of Toronto's mayor, the TTC brass, a naval officer; an army private; an environmentalist charged with eco-terrorism; a tainted food plant; a Quebec government minister; hacking of phones by media; an IMF boss accused of rape; accountants accused of perpetuating tax evasion.

In 1718, a French Canadian naval officer by the name of Jean Baptiste Bienville founded a military - style grid of 70 squares known today as the French Quarter.