(n.) One who used or managed a bombard; an artilleryman; a gunner.
(n.) A noncommissioned officer in the British artillery.
Example Sentences:
(1) The order is the largest yet for Bombardier’s Aventra trains, at 750 carriages, and is a boost to the Derby plant, whose future recently appeared in jeopardy.
(2) The move reduces the chances of a repeat of the Bombardier row, where the company's Derby factory missed out to a German rival for a £1.4bn government contract.
(3) At a press conference Bombardier said an alert had gone off for one of the subsystems during the flight, without providing details.
(4) This investment reflects our commitment, and that of train operators, to put passengers at the heart of everything we do, and will improve journeys and target congestion.” Richard Hunter, Bombardier’s UK managing director, said: “We are thrilled to have won this important contract.
(5) He added in the letter that Bombardier had "significant opportunities" to win more train manufacturing dealsas the government had maintained funding for upgrades to the rail network and the London Underground.
(6) War Debts (extracts) by Lance Bombardier Stephen North You wonder how they miss you to be honest, throwing stuff over the walls.
(7) A day before the stretched Dreamliner flight, Bombardier successfully flew its CSeries jetliner, kicking off a renewed effort to sell the all-new narrow-body plane amid questions about its development cost.
(8) "It flew very well," said Bombardier chief test pilot Chuck Ellis.
(9) Under European Union rules member states are forbidden from showing domestic bias in selecting the winners of government-funded contracts, which exposed the UK government to sharp criticism when the £1.4bn contract for carriages on the London Thameslink route went to Siemens of Germany rather than Bombardier, whose Derby factory is the UK's last remaining train manufacturing plant.
(10) It had used Siemens’ trains for the franchise since privatisation and had placed an order for more of its Desiro trains, in what appeared to be another defeat for Bombardier in a long-running battle with the German industrial group.
(11) However, First announced on winning the franchise that it would return those trains after two years for a new fleet, which has now been ordered from Bombardier.
(12) Captain Johnny Mercer, Fire Support Team Commander D Battery, 3rd Regiment Royal Horse Artillery, said: "Lance Bombardier Mark Chandler was in my eyes the perfect soldier.
(13) The picture is not all rosy: the boss of train manufacturer Bombardier reiterated in Berlin that the future of its Derby plant, and 1,600 jobs, could not be guaranteed without new orders.
(14) He lobbied Bombardier not to quit Britain after losing a contract to build new railway rolling stock to Germany's Siemens.
(15) The train had a sleek silver and gold exterior, but the inside was unnervingly familiar: the Electrostar carriages, built by Bombardier Transportation in Derby, are also used by various British operators.
(16) The defensive spray of the bombardier beetle Stenaptinus insignis is ejected in quick pulses (at about 500 pulses per second) rather than as a continuous stream.
(17) He served as a wing bombardier with the rank of lieutenant in the 12th Air Force, and flew 60 combat missions from Corsica.
(18) Its commander was Tibbets, the group bombardier was Ferebee and the unit's function – although only Tibbets then knew it – was to deliver the A-bomb.
(19) Prior to joining Pearson, she worked at chemicals group ICI and engineering firm Bombardier.
(20) A RAAF P3 Orion departed around 9.15am and is now in the search area.A second RAAF P3 Orion departed around 11.15am and an ultra long range Bombardier Global Express jet departed around 11.30am.
Corporal
Definition:
(n.) A noncommissioned officer, next below a sergeant. In the United States army he is the lowest noncommissioned officer in a company of infantry. He places and relieves sentinels.
(a.) Belonging or relating to the body; bodily.
(a.) Having a body or substance; not spiritual; material. In this sense now usually written corporeal.
(a.) Alt. of Corporale
Example Sentences:
(1) When reformist industrialist Robert Owen set about creating a new community among the workers in his New Lanark cotton-spinning mills at the turn of the nineteenth century, it was called socialism, not corporate social responsibility.
(2) Stringer, a Vietnam war veteran who was knighted in 1999, is already inside the corporation, if only for a few months, after he was appointed as one of its non-executive directors to toughen up the BBC's governance following a string of scandals, from the Jimmy Savile abuse to multimillion-pound executive payoffs.
(3) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(4) "The Republic genuinely wishes Northern Ireland well and that includes the 12.5% corporate tax rate," he said.
(5) Pickles said that to restore its public standing, the corporation needed to be more transparent, including opening itself up to freedom of information requests.
(6) This includes cutting corporation tax to 20%, the lowest in the G20, and improving our visa arrangements with a new mobile visa service up and running in Beijing and Shanghai and a new 24-hour visa service on offer from next summer.
(7) Analysis of official registers reveals the 38 companies in the first wave of the initiative – more than two-thirds of which are based overseas – have collectively had 698 face-to-face meetings with ministers under the current government, prompting accusations of an over-cosy relationship between corporations and ministers.
(8) He strongly welcomes the rise of the NGO movement, which combines with media coverage to produce the beginning of some "countervailing power" to the larger corporations and the traditional policies of first world governments.
(9) Why Corporate America is reluctant to take a stand on climate action Read more “We have these quantum leaps,” Friedberg said.
(10) Photograph: David Grayson David Grayson, director, The Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility, Cranfield University David became professor of corporate responsibility and director of the Doughty Centre for Corporate Responsibility at Cranfield School of Management, in April 2007, after a 30 year career as a social entrepreneur and campaigner for responsible business, diversity, and small business development.
(11) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(12) However, Pearson is understood to have believed an offer from News Corporation to buy Penguin outright would not have been financially viable.
(13) The Cambridge-based couple felt ignored when tried to raise the alarm about the way their business – publisher Zenith – was treated by Lynden Scourfield, the former HBOS banker jailed last week, and David Mills’ Quayside Corporate Services.
(14) It will not be so low as to put off candidates from outside the corporation but will be substantially less than Thompson's £671,000 annual remuneration – in line with Patten's desire to clamp down on BBC executive pay, which he said had become a "toxic issue".
(15) And what next for Channel 4's other great digital radio champion, its director of new business and corporate development, Nathalie Schwarz?
(16) The trust was a compromise hammered out in the wake of the Hutton report, when the corporation hoped to maintain the status quo by preserving the old BBC governors.
(17) Ian Read, Pfizer's Scottish-born chief executive, said the tax structure would protect AstraZeneca's revenues from the 38% rate of corporation tax in the US.
(18) Of the three main parties, the most promising ideas are housing zones and self-build for the Conservatives, Labour’s new homes corporations, and the strong garden cities offer from the Liberal Democrats .
(19) Given the importance of knowing the corporal composition according to the model of the four components (fat, mineral, fat free and aqueous) the same was calculated in 220 women and 130 men, considered as normal, between the ages of 15 and 49.
(20) In contrast, corporate support was positively correlated with the number of hours of total work per week, but negatively correlated with the amount of time currently devoted to research.