"officer" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- They described officers taking bribes from drunks and prostitutes and accepting gifts from businessmen and residents for providing extra surveillance around their properties.
- Lt. Caputo described senior officers as being more worried about trivial matters than strategy.
- Although now much diminished, the practice has not totally disappeared, the slang term 'Rupert' being used to describe such blue-blooded, usually British public school educated, officers.
- Literally meaning "subordinate," subaltern is used to describe commissioned officers below the rank of captain and generally comprises the various grades of lieutenant.
- Tacitus mentioned the phrase vir militaris in some of his passages in order to describe ordinary soldiers or junior officers.
- City officials described dedicated officers who showed remarkable restraint even while being treated with disrespect by the people they were sworn to protect.
- Taylor concluded his criticism of South Yorkshire Police by describing senior officers in command as "defensive and evasive witnesses" who refused to accept any responsibility for error.
- He described officers who needed and appreciated the support of others but - at some level - resented that support because it conjured up their feelings of victimization.
- General Lafayette visited Marietta years later and described these pioneers and former officers: "They were the bravest of brave.
- The affidavit describes senior officers as being closely involved in the company's cost reporting system.
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