When he spoke again it was not as the Bounty's captain addressing an inferior officer.

Its eight companies comprised ninety soldiers each, plus the superior and inferior officers.

And how right he had been to forbid his inferior officers to have anything to do with her.

And few commanders would admit being indebted to an inferior officer for fear of appearing weak.

Even his inferior officers regard him as an "idiot".

Beneath the inferior officers stood the body of the people, who in turn were divided in many ways.

As in the wardroom above there was a table at which the warrant and inferior officers ate.

It was not unusual for a few wives, usually of the warrant or inferior officers, to live on board ship.

A fallback argument by opponents of the independent counsel act is that prosecutors are too important to be "inferior officers."

Until now, you've been speaking with an inferior officer.