officer
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I also put to him Samira's experience, in which she says an officer told her that he had no authority to stop harassment.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
During the visit to the community centre they will meet retired emergency service workers who helped respond to the coal tip collapse, including a 96-year-old woman who was a police officer at the time.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
Its findings can result in disciplinary action, including a recommendation to the police commissioner to fire an officer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
A police officer told AFP that police fired shots into the air to disperse a crowd in Bara, a town in the province's western Khyber district, and five people were detained as dozens protested there.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
The police officer leans his head over, talks into the walkie-talkie hooked to his shoulder, “Yeah, I have a Gabriel Meyer here. Looks like we found who started the fire.”
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey confirmed that officers responded to Delta Flight 938 after it arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport around 11 p.m.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2026
The New York Attorney General’s Office of Special Investigation declined to pursue criminal charges against the officers who killed Rozario, concluding their use of deadly force met the legal standard for self-defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
In 1961, for instance, a riot erupted at the merry-go-round when police officers alleged a 17-year-old Black rider failed to pay for his admission.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2026
The first calls to close Rikers date back to the 1960s, driven by dangers for both inmates and correction officers -- three of whom were injured by an inmate in early September.
From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026
George Washington tolerated no lateness or laziness from his cabinet officers, secretaries, or enslaved servants.
From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis
Most piano companies are tight little family concerns, often officered by grandsons and great-grandsons of the founders, who look down their noses at the raucous upstarts of wind and string.
From Time Magazine Archive
For months Mongokuo has had a de facto government, headed by Prince Teh, together with an army of some 10,000 Mongolians and Manchukuoans officered and commanded by Japanese.
From Time Magazine Archive
The leading company, officered by a Major and two Captains, pushed through the blizzard, attained the summit.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three weeks later they would return, clad in a motley array of khaki uniforms and armed with the weapons they had been taught to use in a crash program officered by Algerian "volunteers."
From Time Magazine Archive
However highly organized and officered a Church may be, no joy would fill an apostle’s heart in beholding it, if the mass of its members had no share in its activities.
From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Alexander Maclaren
But decades of corruption in palace and government paid off disastrously in lack of ammunition, inferior arms and cowardly officering.
From Time Magazine Archive
A report which the Secretary of the Navy is preparing on the subject, to be laid before Congress, will shew at the same time the progress made in officering and manning these ships.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 4: James Madison by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
Not the slightest difficulty is experienced at Liverpool in officering and manning any number of ships for this purpose.
From Three Months in the Southern States, April-June 1863 by Arthur James Lyon Fremantle
Through one of his agents he succeeded in officering it with well-known Southerners, who knew only that part of the plan which contemplated an increase in prices, and were in sympathy with it.
From Philip Dru Administrator : a Story of Tomorrow 1920 - 1935 by Edward Mandell House
After the names had been entered came the question of uniforms, arms, officering, drilling, provisions.
From The Nameless Castle by Mór Jókai
