How To Use Lieutenant In A Sentence

On the evening of 24 May 1941, British lieutenant commander Malcolm Wanklyn, in command of the submarine Upholder, sighted an enemy troop convoy strongly escorted by destroyers off Sicily.
Historically, 95 percent of lieutenants become captains.
I bid you goodnight, Lieutenant. Man of Honour
Flynn said Hilton denied owning a small plastic "bindle" containing 0.8 grams of cocaine powder that the police lieutenant said fell out when Hilton opened the purse to get a tube of lip balm. CBS3.com - Philadelphia's Source For Breaking News, Weather, Traffic and Sports
Lieutenant General Fritz Bayerlein provides a vivid account of what it was like to endure carpet-bombing.

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They had a third alternative in Joe Purcell, a decent, low-key man who had been attorney general and lieutenant governor and done a good job with both positions.
A lieutenant in the bluejacket of a cavalry regiment came into the room. Sharpe's Honour
Moreover, the combined salaries of the three wardens or lieutenants was now less than £400 per annum, and much of this was recouped by reviving the ancient practice of farming the shrievalties.
The orchestra plays Grieg and Moszkowski; a smell of chocolate is in the air; that tall, pink lieutenant over there, with his cropped head and his outstanding ears, his _backfisch_ waist and his mudscow feet -- that military gargoyle, half lout and half fop, offends the roving eye. Europe After 8:15
The purposes of this study were to report our experiences with high-energy wartime extremity wounds, to define the prevalence of heterotopic ossification in these patients, and to determine the factors that might lead to development of the condition," said lead author Lieutenant Commander Jonathan Agner Forsberg, MD. Dr. Forsberg and his team compared data from 243 patients who were treated for orthopaedic injuries between March 1, 2003 and December 31, 2006 at the medical center, including patients who underwent: amputation external or internal fixation of one or more fractures removal of damaged, dead or infected tissue, or 'debridement' EurekAlert! - Breaking News
The fourth class (officers of the British Empire and Lieutenants of the Royal Victorian Order) and fifth class (members of the British Empire and Royal Victorian Order) wear their respective badges on medal ribands or bows (women).
With a full lieutenant commander 's uniform a bad guy could simply walk in. The Sun
In Ireland the justiciar was the king's chief representative in the 13th cent. until superseded by the king's lieutenant, the lord deputy, and the lord-lieutenant.
He was a Navy lieutenant who fought in real battles.
Apollyon was his Second Lieutenant, ranking below only Lady Alysia and the Prince himself.
How should a lieutenant colonel in the Marines address a captain in the navy? Times, Sunday Times
I had spent an idyllic summer on Mayne Island which takes its name from a lieutenant on a Royal Navy survey ship that charted these waters a century and a half ago.
The subadar major stuck to Lieutenant Cassells, and it is to him the lieutenant owes his life. The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War
The Norman kings were often overseas and appointed a Justiciar, Regent or Lieutenant to represent them in the kingdom, as the Sheriff did in the shire.
He is a time-server, the perfect Lieutenant Governor.
The Pre-Parliament was an obvious failure and Lenin continued to bombard his lieutenants with demands for a forcible seizure of power.
He became a pilot in 1921 and was eventually promoted to lieutenant colonel during World War II.
We laugh, and he delivers the punchline about the lieutenant governor's shoes one more time. The Times Literary Supplement
But it is hard to say, because although under age, he enlisted as an Ordinary Seaman on the outbreak of World War II, later going to the Fleet Air Arm as a telegraphist air gunner, earned a commission, and served overseas - at eighteen years of age probably the youngest sublieutenant in the RCNVR. Looking for Trouble
He was finally appointed lieutenant colonel and authorized to raise a regiment.
The twisted logic was inadvertently summed up by agriculture minister Bruno Le Maire, a loyal Sarkozy lieutenant, with the words: "When they remove all the pork from a restaurant open to the public, I think they fall into communalism, which is against the principles and spirit of the French republic. The Guardian World News
Lieutenants Armstrong and Reed formed the rear guard. The Medallic History of the United States of America 1776-1876
This includes a radio operator, light and heavy machine gun operators, and at least a lieutenant or two who bark out orders for the platoon to follow.
Partly this is down to that old bedevilling British thing, class: Mr. Cameron is from very well-bred stock, and so are almost all of his lieutenants. The Election of Gordon W. Bush
There the saluting officer was Major Edmund Gartside, who is deputy lord lieutenant of Manchester.
When the general found there were no additional seats on the plane, he bumped a second lieutenant.
Appointed first lieutenant in the Continental Navy in 1775, Jones received the command of the Ranger in 1777.
In her haste, she almost ran over a ship's lieutenant, who flattened himself against the doorway as she charged past him.
Commissioned a lieutenant colonel in 1754, he fought the first skirmishes of what grew into the French and Indian War.
As a general rule, however, military intellectuals tend to face mandatory retirement as lieutenant colonels or colonels, just as they are achieving full intellectual maturity.
On paper, Lieutenant Commander Brian K. Waite, a United States Navy chaplain, appears to be one of the nation's foremost scholars on a wide-range of topics such as traumatology, theology, and Biblical history. Navy Chaplain Who Called for Attack on Islam Finds His Credentials Under Scrutiny
He was born in Pomerania and rose to the rank of lieutenant general in the German Army by 1911. Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I
But the brother, a spiritual sublieutenant in the Church of Personal Magnetism, did have a phone and Quoyle had his number. THE SHIPPING NEWS
The bowsprit of the _Pique_ passing over the starboard-quarter of the _Blanche_, Captain Faulkner, aided by his second lieutenant and two others of his crew, was in the act of lashing the _Pique's_ bowsprit to her capstern, when he was shot by a musket-ball through the heart. How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves Updated to 1900
The men, in uniforms of a major and lieutenant colonel, got past security into a compound. The Sun
Flynn said Hilton denied owning a small plastic "bindle" containing 0.8 grams of cocaine that the police lieutenant said fell out when Hilton opened the purse to get a tube of lip balm. PhillyBurbs.com: Home RSS feed
Maybe he can sell it to generals, but not many privates, corporals and second lieutenants.
The head of Nato in Libya, Lieutenant-General Charles Bouchard, said Col Gaddafi's forces had employed what he called underhand and immoral tactics in their seven-week drive to dislodge the rebels from the city. BBC News - Home
The invitation to become deputy Lieutenant came in June this year, he still doesn't know why.
Personally and nonmedically speaking, I wouldn't trust him any farther than you could throw one of Lieutenant Woida's barbells, and I wouldn't let him anywhere near the bridge without a full security detail around him, one that's more alert than the one he got the drop on the first time. Chain of Attack
We have nine Lieutenant-Governors, receiving $10,000 a year in salary from the Federal authorities -- $90,000 in all. Present Day Problems
It being granted, he succeeded in making an exchange of the lieutenant for one of his expressmen. The Life and Adventures of Kit Carson, the Nestor of the Rocky Mountains, from Facts Narrated by Himself
He had been unrelenting with his plan and given no heed to the young lieutenant he had talked to.
He served as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Air Force bomber command until 1947.
The Lieutenant Governor and Mrs. Mackay were piped from the banquet hall to the Toronto Room where they received the guests. Dinner In Honour of The Honourable J. Keiller Mackay
An order for the immediate arrest of Vittoria was brought round to the stage at the fall of the curtain by Captain Weisspriess, and delivered by him on the stage to the officer commanding, a pothered lieutenant of Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
ROTC is an elective course of study, taken in conjunction with any academic major that, upon graduation, leads to a reserve commission as a second lieutenant in the army, air force, or Marine Corps or an ensign in the navy.
His position has been carefully isolated as his various Lieutenants have, at last, been subjected to searching cross-examination instead of the toothless gumming meted out by the MSM over the years, something which has demonstrated the high standards of advocacy that are produced by our adversarial system of litigation, though, strictly speaking, an inquest is inquisitorial in nature. Archive 2008-02-10
The Lord Lieutenant High Honour is bestowed once a year by the Lord Lieutenant of each county.
After 12 years of teaching ethics at the Air War College, Maxwell AFB, Alabama, I have learned a few lessons from the lieutenant colonels and colonels I've taught.
One of Bucket's favorite Taglian lieutenants, stuck with the name Lhopal Pete to distinguish him from a sergeant everybody called Khusavir Pete (both "Petes" deriving from the center syllable of an eleventeen-syllable Gunni godname), came to tell his leader he would need to bring up a lot more water if the men were going to take care of all the cleanup I wanted them to do while I explored beyond the Shadowgate. She Is The Darkness
Autobiography used to be the preserve of hammy actors, gammy lieutenant commanders and superannuated hangers-on to the Bloomsbury Group.
Yesterday, half a million people met at Revolution Plaza to bid farewell to the sublieutenant who was killed by one of these criminals who hijacked a boat to travel to the United States. Fidel Castro's 8 Aug News Conference
In the time of Caligula the administration of Africa was divided in such a way that the military power, with the foreign policy, was under the control of the lieutenant of the emperor, who could be called a hegemon (as in St. Luke), while the internal affairs were under the ordinary proconsul. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy
Lieutenant Colonel McSally commands twenty - seven aircraft and more than sixty crew members.
And Graham Gooch's first lieutenant Stewart, the Surrey skipper, will be a key witness at a committee of inquiry.
The queen appoints a lieutenant-governor as her representative in the two bailiwicks of Jersey and Guernsey.
They are scheduled to graduate from the Royal Military College as lieutenants in the Australian Army on Saturday June 22.
He had been many years a lieutenant, and his temper had been considerably soured before he had got his promotion; indeed, some of those whom he had known as midshipmen were now admirals, and he seemed to take especial pleasure in acting in a dictatorial manner towards all those under him. The Three Commanders
AS the Passport was directed to all lieutenant-governors, governors, and commandants of cities, generals of armies, justiciaries, and all officers of justice, to let Mr. Yorick the kings jester, and his baggage, travel quietly alongI own the triumph of obtaining the Passport was not a little tarnishd by the figure I cut in it. 50. The Passport. Versailles
She went over to stand by the gorgeous dark-skinned woman, Uhura, and her own crewwoman Aidoann, while the captain, with occasional snickerings, read the document the lieutenant had brought him. Rihannsu: The Bloodwing Voyages
Libuša's foundation on the Hradšany and extending down to the river, probably under the rule of the King's lieutenant or burgrave, and finally the Old Town on the right bank with its own municipal institutions. From a Terrace in Prague
Dekak appointed Subtekkin his lieutenant, to Tata/b. govern his ftate, but foon after fubflituted atabek Tegtek - kin, who had been governor before both of it and Miya - ferkm, under Taj-oddawla, and preceptor to Dekak him - felf. The modern part of an universal history from the earliest accounts to the present time;
AmE lieuténant, BrE lefténant littérateur literatër lorgnette, lorgnon lornyét, lornyón louche loôsh luthier-a maker of stringed instruments such as violins or guitars məshêen madame brothel, Madame title madáme, cf. mádam shopping madeleine mádeleíne mademoiselle madame wàzél maisonette maizonét maître d'hôtel métradô-tél, mâitradô-tél maladroit maladrŏit malcontent malines malêen mandoline (also 'mandolin' in English) mándə-lín margarine marjərìne marque type Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
It was not for many months afterwards that Lieutenant Ennefer heard of the catastrophe, and when he came up Channel again on his return four years later, there was the old seamark clear once more, whiter a little, but still the same old tower. The Nebuly Coat
He watched in horrified fascination as the lieutenant took out a single match and poised it over the striking strip.
Lieutenant Cook hath fully ascertained the erroneousness of this opinion. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
Palace when the promoter, Bob Arum, introduced him to a visiting dignitary from the South Korean Boxing Federation – Lieutenant General Heroes or Villains?
Lieutenant Otero, who had charge of the frigate, paused to listen to the leadsman who was calling the depth. Sharpe's Devil
A lieutenant reported a loud bang he described as a hubcap rolling on the floor — or an air vent being popped onto a roof? Escape From Alcatraz And A 47-Year Manhunt
His father was an American, an Annapolis man, a midshipman in the War of the Rebellion, and in 1866 a lieutenant of the Suwanee which coaled at an island in the Pacific. “Have you lived? What have you got to show for it?”
He was my right-hand man, my lieutenant on the field, a cool, calculated footballer.
As the Grafton was scuttled, Mr Kester - who eventually held the rank of sub lieutenant - was transferred to the destroyer Ivanhoe and ended up in Dover.
The King conferred revised sentences - notably four full pardons and a reinstatement - on the group, which included three majors and two lieutenant colonels.
The captain came to the rail; he was an RNVR lieutenant called Craigie. The Breaking Wave
Surgeon Pavy's angry protests compelled the sending back in the "Proteus" -- paralleling the sending back of Coleburne in the pink -- of one member of the company; and Lieutenant Henry Hudson A Brief Statement of His Aims and His Achievements
The old lady pointed out the machine-gunner on top of the personnel carrier as the thief, and when the lieutenant ordered the man to empty his pockets, piaster notes tumbled out. The Village
Eventually, Tyndall instructors will teach young lieutenants — pilots who have never flown a fighter before.
These captains and lieutenants have formed a bond and mutual respect with their men and it is these faces that leaders remember for the rest of their lives.
A raft of top bosses and small-fry lieutenants have been nabbed since then.
Do NOT allow a few sundry Lieutenant-Colonels or Grade Five public servants alone swing for this shameful abnegation of Ministerial responsibility.
Lieutenant Uhura, does the location of the distress call correspond with this area exactly? Wink Of An Eye
Will it be from the captains, majors, or commanders who entered military service five or ten years ago, or from the lieutenants or ensigns who joined last year?
He attained the rank of lieutenant-colonel in the Royal Engineers.
The militia lieutenant took the page and read it quickly, then returned to the top to give it a slower redigestion. The Bear and the Dragon
The story was denounced by another navy lieutenant. The Times Literary Supplement
Having the high rank of lieutenant general, there was no command for him after Vicksburg, so he resigned his lieutenant generalcy to accept an appointment as a colonel in the artillery division.
Oliver North received his commission as Second Lieutenant in 1968.
He had gotten back to third lieutenant but never regained his confidence or former rank.
And we, the Southerners who are called the cavaliers, are led by a puritan," said Lieutenant-Colonel St. Hilaire. The Scouts of Stonewall The Story of the Great Valley Campaign
Le lieutenant n'hésite pas à mettre sa tête en les mains du meurtrier joué par le Londonien Anthony Andrews, interprète notamment du demi-frère du personnage tenu par Albert Finney dans Under the Volcano de John Huston. Archive 2009-07-12
The young hero has an inauspicious beginning, turns it to his benefit through pluck and luck, then begins the cursus honorum of the sea: sailor, midshipman, lieutenant, captain, admiral, commemorative 30th-anniversary boxed set, remainder pile, deliquescence. At Journey's End, a Ship of the Line
In March 1943 Seely was appointed first-lieutenant of the lease-lend destroyer Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
As a Shawnee police department lieutenant explained to reporters, the transparent tape performed as advertised.
Named one of Parliament's deputy lieutenants in March 1642, his subsequent military record was undistinguished.
Virtually all present were on the kaiser's team, while two first lieutenants played on the side of the armies of France, Britain, Belgium, and Holland.
The aunt of the Countess Ida, who presided over her house during her minority, had foolishly allowed her to contract an attachment for her cousin-german, a penniless sub-lieutenant in one of the The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
Five Americans were also killed in the last week, one a lieutenant colonel. Times, Sunday Times
His schmooz rambling Lieutenant Colombo impersonation has the outward trappings of Colombo, but not the Detective's intelligence. Richardson On Bush: He's Putting His Legacy Ahead Of The Troops
Spanish lieutenant governors, palms well greased, usually winked at contraband trade, and furs, skins, and trade goods would flow across borders with relative ease.
With the exception of Lieutenant Alun Jones, 28 of the aircrew and passengers were provided with individual headstones at the time.
James Corby nodded in acknowledgment and joined Lieutenant Anthony Bridges on the poop deck at the back from where they cast a calm and alert eye across the proceedings on deck.
`From the Purple Pirate, Lieutenant William Evans, to his great-great-grandson, Joshua Evans! THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
`Lieutenant Viard will be charged with the unauthorized use of a military vehicle," the military police officer explained. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
These people could relax and give themselves up to enjoyment because they were "heeled" -- as a boy lieutenant slangily put it -- to Poor Man's Rock
At the moment when the Hanoverian lieutenant, Wilda, grasped this handle in order to take refuge in the farm, a French sapper hewed off his hand with an axe.
Just to make things complicated, their ensign - the lowest commissioned rank in the British army - was a lieutenant-general, one of the highest in the world of real soldiers.
Graduates not only receive a Bachelor of Science degree but also a commission as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army.
Lieutenant Peters was now in command.
The meteorologist was a lieutenant junior grade who had obviously never flown through a typhoon before and now looked completely terrified. Gideon’s war
‘I started out as a midshipman, the lowest rank on board a ship, and worked my way up to lieutenant three years later,’ he told the Daily Dispatch on board the ship this week.
Lord Petre, Lord Lieutenant of Essex, then escorted the prince to his chartered helicopter.
Ay, I'm no sayin 'ye may no be richt, sir," answered the first lieutenant; "but it'll be an unco strain upon the spars to set thae to'gallants'ls; our new rigging has stretched until it's all hangin 'in bights, as ye may see for yoursel' by lookin 'at it. A Middy of the King A Romance of the Old British Navy
Ralph, the little cherub, is running for Lieutenant Governor in Georgia. 04/21/2005
A volunteer Buffalo police lieutenant also lectured on awareness and how to avoid getting attacked.
The elusiveness of the leader and his lieutenants has gnawed at officials and has cast doubt on their claims of having disrupted the group.
To please all was somewhat difficult, and occasionally some of them were scarcely so polite as they should have been to a perplexed hostess, who could scarcely be expected to remember that Lieutenant A. had bespoken his sangaree an instant before Captain B. and his friends had ordered their claret cup. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
The Lieutenant and 80 soldiers, much against orders, pursued the attackers and were wiped out when they were decoyed into an ambush of 1,000 waiting warriors.
The lieutenant spoke in short shrill periods, chopping off the ends of his words as if with a hatchet. Three Soldiers
Ten to one on Harrington!" bawled the Birch Creek King, flourishing his sack in the lieutenant's face. A DAUGHTER OF THE AURORA
Nigeria's army killed more than 50 members of the sect during fighting on Thursday and Friday in the north-eastern city of Damaturu, Lieutenant General Azubuike Ihejirika, the force's chief of staff, said in comments published in local media. Nigeria clashes kill at least 68, say officials
Each day we would assemble in a room under the supervision of a young Lieutenant and sing carols.
_Fatima_, the first swab, as I told you, got an ugly scrape in the leg that prevented him from moving; so when the second lieutenant was put in charge of the dhow to take her up to Zanzibar, I was the only responsible man the captain could think of to send cruising with the pinnace, as the middy was a harum-scarum youngster, who hadn't got thought enough, and neither the boatswain nor Chips could be taken away from their duties without perhaps the ship suffering. The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
The invitation to become deputy Lieutenant came in June this year, he still doesn't know why.
He was hauled before his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel James Stevenson, and summarily dismissed.
A highlight of the event was a flypast by an F3 Tornado piloted by Flight Lieutenant Sally-Ann Cronin of 25 Fighter Squadron.
Joseph Tilly was a military man and became a lieutenant in the artillery.
"Affirmative Lieutenant. Has the Commander been informed?"
Taking his cue from Mailer in The Armies of the Night, the author puts Lieutenant Philip Caputo centre stage in a deployment of marines to Da Nang. Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes
By this time, I had become the executive officer of the regiment, a lieutenant colonel and all that.
I will not make a snap decision, Lieutenant.
On Tuesday I called the lieutenant in charge of the buy-back program for some more information.
The lieutenant governor of the colony was an ambivalent, placative man named George Arthur, who might well have preferred that travesty of humaneness. The Song of The Dodo
Lieutenant Parker to come out, in order that he might make room for two smaller men, and he _obeyed the order_. The Naval History of the United States Volume 2 (of 2)
The son of Lady Elizabeth Savile, for whom Halifax had written his ‘Advice to a Daughter’ He was a distinguished statesman and diplomatist, ambassador at The Hague 1728-32 and lord lieutenant of Ireland 1745-6.
The two former military officers (Woodward served as a lieutenant in the Navy) have been amigos for more than a dozen years.
The branches of the hierarchical tree hide this secret organisation with its inner clan of unknown lieutenants possessing mythical powers.
After a short pause to watch us, she passed on surrounded by the Lord Lieutenant of Dorset and other local dignitaries.
Some of the great glories of science, including many who have adorned the non-physical sciences, have been as innocent of metaphysical theory as so many police lieutenants.
They were still enraged over the pistole dispute and irked that the lieutenant governor had already launched a campaign. George Washington’s First War
The reefer was a well-dressed boy, evidently a gentleman's son; but the lieutenant was one of those old weather-beaten sea-dogs, who are seldom employed in boats, unless something more than common is to be done. Miles Wallingford Sequel to "Afloat and Ashore"
The naval agent, Lieutenant John Shortland, was another had defected; he was in Fishburn the storeship, though one of his two sons was second mate in Alexander. Morgan’s Run
The military's fraternization policies prohibit active duty personnel from marrying local civilians, military spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Josslyn Aberle told the newspaper.
Thankfully, the lieutenant had slipped into unconsciousness, instead of continuing to squirm and convulse in obvious discomfort due to the attack on his nervous system. Star Trek: Typhon Pact Paths of Disharmony
He served as a lieutenant in the marine corps.
He had been made into a Lieutenant, and that was something of a miracle for a man who had joined the army as an illiterate Private, and he had been brevetted a Captain, which meant he was paid as such even though his true rank remained Lieutenant, but he could only get the real promotion if he either purchased a vacant Captaincy or, much less likely, was promoted by Lawford. Sharpe's Escape
‘We're in a state of high alert,’ said one police lieutenant.
RA ranks within the 2nd Training Regiment at Fort Dix boasted just one colonel, one lieutenant colonel, a first lieutenant and three shavetails.
As soon as I get over this bronchitis/ear infection/etc crap, I must come over and play with the future Commander in Chief, and her sublieutenant too. Is She Next?
The lieutenant praised the youth wholeheartedly for his bravery.
The story was denounced by another navy lieutenant. The Times Literary Supplement
The lieutenant stood ahead of the troops.
The message announced tersely that Lieutenant Commander Robert A. Toland, III, USNR, had been "frocked" as a Commander, USNR, which gave him the right to wear the three gold stripes of a commander, but not to collect a commander's pay just yet. Red Storm Rising
After a short interrogation, the lieutenant and I were sent to hospital, while Kolya reassumed his job as an army driver. The Gun
The only problem was Hunter never really knew what his trusted lieutenant was thinking.
At Uruba, Lieutenant Colonel Francis Chemonges explained how Mogadishu's once highly developed cityscape is providing problems today. Reporter's Notebook: Mogadishu
Nor had Francis Crozier trusted Lieutenant George Henry Hodgson, his captain of the fo'c'sle, Reuben Male, or Erebus captain of the foretop Robert Sinclair since that day of near mutiny back at Hospital Camp more than a month earlier. The Terror
Lieutenant Peterson shouted the order to retreat.
CARLSBAD ---- Police found three teenage burglary suspects and stolen property during a vehicle stop in the northern part of the city this week, a Carlsbad police lieutenant said Saturday. Undefined
To copy correspondence, an admiral commanding an entire fleet might have two or three clerks, an aide/flag lieutenant, and occasionally a supply officer.
He was wearing the uniform of a second lieutenant in a cavalry regiment. Times, Sunday Times
The problem is that many military generals and colonels and lieutenant-colonels do their own thing.
Unable to make contact with the first of the two sighted ships, Lieutenant Clark in the coble headed for the second one and managed to board her. Morgan’s Run
In September 1945 I was a surgeon lieutenant in the Royal Navy in Ceylon when I was sent to Sumatra with a naval landing party to Belawan Deli, the port for Medan, the principal city in the northern part of the island.
Like all the graduating cadets, he was assigned to a unit as a platoon lieutenant, commanding the ranks of the enlisted men.
He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and deputy lieutenant of the county.
Furthermore, something even in the official's self-possessed and somewhat ostentatious manner in making his specifications strangely reminded him of a bandsman, a perjurous witness in a capital case before a courtmartial ashore of which when a lieutenant, he, Captain Vere, had been a member. Billy Budd
The ring members typically held low-level jobs, such as farmhands, roofers and car-wash employees, said Lieutenant Mark Nicholas of the prosecutor's office. CourierPostOnline.com - News
A major is immediately below a lieutenant-colonel in rank.
Then he drank a pint of beer and had a game of shove-halfpenny with a flight-lieutenant. In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs
When intelligence discovered the time and place of a meeting of his lieutenants, a plan was devised to take them by surprise with helicopter rangers aided by ground troops.
He was a surgeon lieutenant in the navy and a major in the special forces for the sultan of Oman.
‘Lieutenant Braddock, please report to the pilot house,’ the internal address system announced.
`Lieutenant Viard will be charged with the unauthorized use of a military vehicle," the military police officer explained. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
The real dopes are his lieutenants who appear incapable of helping out their tired leader.
I sent Lieutenants Amir and Yusuf to prospect certain stone-heaps which lay seawards of the graves; and they found a little heptangular demi-lune, concave to the north; the curtains varying from a minimum length of ten to a maximum of eighty me'tres, and the thickness averaging two metres, seventy-five centimetres. The Land of Midian — Volume 1
One of the officer present, a Lieutenant Bouchard, who had trained in archaeology, identified the three bands of scripts as hieroglyphic, demotic, and ancient Greek.
For those with a zany sense of humor, the adventures of Lieutenant Frank Drebin were a laugh riot from beginning to end.
The lieutenant drew his thumbnail back and forth on the letter in front of him and left a deep indention on the edge. The Convict and Other Stories
Five Americans were also killed in the last week, one a lieutenant colonel. Times, Sunday Times
A trooper shot the Lieutenant's horse, leaning from his saddle to put the bullet plumb into the beast's skull.
They are two young sub lieutenants, not out of their teens who have been placed in charge of these trawlers to take them to the Dardanelles.
Her invisibility results from her invented love story with the French lieutenant and her shelter in Rossetti s notorious art studio with the aid of the male narrator, Charles and Doctor Grogan.
The school system prepares an officer for success at the tactical and operational levels and to serve in positions of a strategic nature at the rank of lieutenant colonel and above.
Fernand Braudel was serving as a lieutenant on the Rhine frontier and became a prisoner of war.
With the group was a lieutenant, buttoned close in his gray coat, -- one button gone, perhaps to make a breastpin for some fair traitorous bosom. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
A Lieutenant Luther Hare had ridden ahead of the column with some Crow scouts.
Sampling from journals, diaries and letters, Mr. Urban gives us a chance to share the pain -- in effect, to campaign with the generals, captains, lieutenants and teenage "pipsqueak" subalterns of the 23rd, and with the rough-and-tumble privates. Seeing Red
Sir Stamford Raffles, the then British Lieutenant Governor of Java, reported a series of titanic detonations loud enough to be heard in Sumatra 1,600 kilometres away.
Therefore, judging my distance very carefully, I did a _renversement_ in the Lieutenant Barry fashion. High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
He ended the war as a lieutenant colonel and went on to be a distinguished diplomat. The Sun
He went from being a lieutenant in the Soviet ‘Red’ Army to earning a commission in the U.S. Air Force, and has never looked back.
That is the beginning of a rollicking adventure that involves a blacksmith's assistant, a straight laced lieutenant and a chest of Aztec gold.
From this body the petty local officials were chosen; namely, the Gobernadorcillo, or ‘Petty Governor,’ and his lieutenants, the alguaciles, or constables, and other minor officers.
A lieutenant stood at the right of the line, the point of his sword upon the ground, his left hand resting upon his right.

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