(n.) A chief; one who has supreme authority; a leader; the chief officer of an army, or of any division of it.
(n.) An officer who ranks next below a captain, -- ranking with a lieutenant colonel in the army.
(n.) The chief officer of a commandery.
(n.) A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) I want to be clear; the American forces that have been deployed to Iraq do not and will not have a combat mission,” said Obama in a speech to troops at US Central Command headquarters in Florida.
(2) Squadron Leader Kevin Harris, commander of the Merlins at Camp Bastion, the main British base in Helmand, praised the crews, adding: "The Merlins will undergo an extensive programme of maintenance and cleaning before being packed up, ensuring they return to the UK in good order."
(3) This modulation results from repetitive, alternating bursts of excitatory and inhibitory postsynaptic potentials, which are caused at least in part by synaptic feedback to the command neurons from identified classes of neurons in the feeding network.
(4) Child age was negatively correlated with mother's use of commands, reasoning, threats, and bribes, and positively correlated with maternal nondirectives, servings, and child compliance.
(5) In a recent book about the life of Rudolf Höss who was the commandant at Auschwitz, he is quoted as saying of himself that he was not a murderer, he was “just in charge of an extermination camp”.
(6) Harati was commander of the Tripoli Brigade during the Libyan revolution.
(7) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
(8) Belmar and his fellow commanders spent the week before the grand jury decision assuring residents that 1,000 officers had been training for months to prepare for that day.
(9) He is telling others at the checkpoint not to enter.” The images suggest Hashlamon turned to face a soldier with a radio – who according to eyewitnesses was a commander – who approached from the left from the photographer’s point of view.
(10) Thus, SA may be controlled by a discrete number of motoneuron task groups reflecting a small number of central command signals or by a continuum of activation patterns associated with a continuum of moment arms.
(11) "We try to get closer to the people, we try to get lower down the command structures and we try to be more embedded than sometimes the Americans appear to do," the defence secretary said.
(12) The strike, which Central Command said destroyed the Isis fighting position, follows Barack Obama's vow in his televised speech on Wednesday to go on the offensive against Isis more broadly in Iraq and, soon, Syria.
(13) As commander in chief, I believe that taking care of our veterans and their families is a sacred obligation.
(14) The Iraqi prime minister has fired several senior security force commanders over the defeats in the face of Isis and on Wednesday announced that 59 military officers would be prosecuted for abandoning the city of Mosul.
(15) Morrison and Operation Sovereign Borders commander Lieutenant General Angus Campbell continued to insist that their refusal to answer questions about “on water matters” was essential to meet the overriding goal of stopping asylum seeker boats, and said from now on such briefings on the policy would be held when needed, rather than every week because the “establishment phase” had finished.
(16) However, in a double-cue conditioning paradigm in which both command words were presented alone on different trials and reinforced, response latency was longer and puff attenuation poorer among Vs than when the UCS was signaled by a unique cue.
(17) Monuc was not able to prevent the siege of Bukavu by rebel commanders in 2004 or to counter threats posed by the Rwandan FDLR militia or Laurent Nkunda's National Congress for the Defence of the Congolese People (CNDP) rebellion.
(18) In a statement, the IDF said Jaabari was "a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas command", and had been "directly responsible for executing terror attacks against the state of Israel in the past number of years".
(19) Commanders were calling Roberts on his mobile phone, pleading for help.
(20) The centrally generated ;effort' or direct voluntary command to motoneurones required to lift a weight was studied using a simple weight-matching task when the muscles lifting a reference weight were weakened.
Liege
Definition:
(a.) Sovereign; independent; having authority or right to allegiance; as, a liege lord.
(a.) Serving an independent sovereign or master; bound by a feudal tenure; obliged to be faithful and loyal to a superior, as a vassal to his lord; faithful; loyal; as, a liege man; a liege subject.
(a.) Full; perfect; complete; pure.
(n.) A free and independent person; specif., a lord paramount; a sovereign.
(n.) The subject of a sovereign or lord; a liegeman.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study had for objective to detect the psychological morbidity of 176 non-consulting primiparas in the region of Liege using both the PSE and a sociological questionnaire.
(2) From January 1976 to June 1984, 308 necropsies were performed on neonates and fetuses of various gestational age, mainly coming from hospitals of the province of Liege.
(3) Radio 2 listeners recently voted Liege and Lief the most influential folk album ever.
(4) So Thursday night's "people's festival" in Ghent, a large street party in honour of eight government-free months, with its spoof world championship ceremony, was accompanied by stunts in Brussels and Antwerp, Leuven and Liege in what turned into a Red Nose day aimed at shaming a cynical political elite.
(5) Its designer, Kenjiro Sano, asked that his logo be withdrawn, weeks after a Belgian designer, Olivier Debie, accused him of drawing heavily on own motif for the Theatre de Liege .
(6) Osborne: We haven't got a legacy to stand on … Lansley: I am happy to announce, my liege, that the NHS is now officially a joke … Cameron: Brilliant, Adrian.
(7) Oldham is better known, of course, as that bearded liege lord of modern folk, Bonnie Prince Billy , and when Olsen joined his touring band in 2010 she was at the very other end of the musicians' ladder, an aspirant on the Chicago indie scene who'd not yet done a paid gig.
(8) When Porto signed Mangala from Standard Liege in August 2011, they bought 90% of his economic rights, not 100%.
(9) Updated at 4.44pm GMT 4.43pm GMT "I'm very happy to be sitting next to Leo as well..." Leonardo chuckles and says "Thank you my liege."
(10) After taking a second look at a treatment that was common in 1933 for victims of cluster headaches, a doctor from Lieges, Belgium, is now training anesthesiologists in the technique of alcoholization of the sphenopalatine ganglion.
(11) He bought and sold stakes in Standard Liege, Charleroi and Nice before deciding he wanted to own a British club, picking up Portsmouth for £5m in 1998.
(12) Although closely related (r = 0.68), the use of these two parameters in a single scale, the Glasgow-Liege scale, improves the precision of prognosis, especially for those head trauma patients with initial and complete loss of consciousness.
(13) But the Duke has for six decades honoured his own vow on that day to be "your liege man of life and limb, and of earthly worship", and he wasn't going to let her down now.
(15) The 29-year-old DR Congo international, four times a Belgian league champion across his spells with Standard Liege and Anderlecht, will move to Carrow Road pending the approval of a work permit.
(16) The complete pedigree indicates that Hb D-Los Angeles was already present in Liege province in the 18th century.
(17) Fellaini cost around €19m (£16m at the present rate) with add-ons when Moyes bought the Belgian midfielder to Everton from Standard Liege in 2008.
(18) The author complemented the AMDP-4 scale by some somatic items from the Liege psychiatric record, the code of Devroye, Pinchard and Timsit.
(19) The phenotypes of C3 and of Tf were determined in 818 and 576, respectively, unrelated individuals living in Liege.
(20) Eighty nine patients with hypoxic chronic obstructive airways disease (COAD) were enrolled into the 1 year Vectarion International Multicentre Study-VIMS in 4 centres, Sheffield (UK), and Antwerp, Liege and Namur (Belgium).