(1) The Whitby coxswain Thomas Langlands, on the rowing boat lifeboat first to the wreck, was among three people awarded the RNLI's gold medal for gallantry, its equivalent of the Victoria Cross.
(2) Some of the nutritional concerns of female athletes are highlighted in this case study of a 20-year-old woman who wants to lose 16% of her body weight to qualify for the position of coxswain on a national crew team.
Helmsman
Definition:
(n.) The man at the helm; a steersman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Rather, it is about the Great Helmsman as a guide for party leadership.
(2) "He must safeguard his position as the helmsman of the left," said a former magazine editor in Beijing, Li Weidong.
(3) The ship's hotel director was sentenced to two years and six months while two bridge officers and a helmsman got sentences ranging from 20 to 23 months.
(4) The premier, said Khodorkovsky, was helmsman of a galley which "sails right over people's destinies" and "over which, more and more, the citizens of Russia seem to see a black pirate flag flying".
(5) Now, with Blackburn five points adrift of safety in the Premier League , the chairman, John Williams, has put his faith in a safe, experienced helmsman, who at 54, is 13 years older than the man he replaced.
(6) There is, none the less, something curious about the cult of Mao, which began in the 80s, roughly 10 years after the Great Helmsman's death.
(7) It is like telling the helmsman to avoid both the rock and the hard place.
(8) He was a helmsman for the 2001 federal election campaign, which plucked victory from troubled waters following two incidents known as the Tampa and "children overboard" affairs.
(9) The prime minister talks as if we would suddenly be up the famous brown creek without a helmsman.
(10) The Cultural Revolution was the brainchild of China’s ‘Great Helmsman’, Chairman Mao Zedong.
(11) The “great helmsman” Mao Zedong is clearly one inspiration, but the pragmatic reformer Deng Xiaoping is another.