officer
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Dean Gialamas, the LAPD’s chief information officer, said Flock sent the department suggested changes to the proposed contract on Monday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
Another senior officer, the head of the police's organised crime unit Maj-Gen Richard Shibiri, admitted to receiving a "personal loan" of $4,000 from Matlala which he repaid.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
The talks mark Uber’s latest efforts to bolster its international presence, and comes after a series of recent changes at Delivery Hero including plans for the departure of its co-founder and chief executive officer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
But successful value investing requires precisely that faith, according to the president and chief investment officer of Tsai Capital, Christopher Tsai.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
“Miss ten Boom,” the officer began in excellent Dutch, “I have a few questions I believe you can help me with.”
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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The officers took their positions and scanned my ID, boarding pass and carry-on bags.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Immigration officers were instructed to not stop moving vehicles to arrest or question the occupants.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Police officers, for example, are often trained not to shoot at moving cars.
From Slate ● Jul. 14, 2026
CTP London Commander Helen Flanagan said officers had been given up to seven days to question the eight people arrested under the Terrorism Act.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026
“For what if you are caught? The officers of the law will surely think that you are the thief.”
From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood
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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
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In an army largely officered by the least promising sons of wealthy families, he was a standout taskmaster and a social flop.
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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With the hope of preventing this, a force of three hundred Menominee Indians was recruited there, and sent to the seat of war, officered by American and French residents.
From Stories of the Badger State by Thwaites, Reuben Gold
But decades of corruption in palace and government paid off disastrously in lack of ammunition, inferior arms and cowardly officering.
From Time Magazine Archive
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"The cult of the Asiatic life" is the latest definition of Christianity given by a recent apologist of Hinduism, one of a small company of Europeans in India officering the Hindu revival.
From New Ideas in India During the Nineteenth Century A Study of Social, Political, and Religious Developments by Morrison, John
Washington concluded his letter with valuable hints about officering the provisional army.
From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Lossing, Benson John
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 House, Edward Mandell
Reaching the Eagle, Rooke, who had now the command of the attacking party, rapidly made his dispositions for despatching the flotilla—the officering of the various fireships being at his disposition.
From In the Day of Adversity by Bloundelle-Burton, John