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The color guard consists of enlisted members and is commanded by the senior ( color ) Sergeant, who carries the National Color and gives the necessary commands for movements and rendering honors during drill exercises or parade ceremonies.
Traditionally, royal births were witnessed by members of the family and senior courtiers to guard against supposititious children, and Augusta had been forced by her husband to ride in a rattling carriage for an hour and a half while heavily pregnant and in pain.
After being cast into exile, in mid-2004 Aristide, his family, and bodyguards were welcomed to South Africa by several cabinet ministers, 20 senior diplomats, and a guard of honour.
Spurs drafted Missouri Tigers senior point guard Marcus Denmon with the 59th pick.
2009 Ville Platte High School graduate Rarlensee Nelson is a senior point guard and captain of the University of New Orleans Basketball team.
Such units guard government buildings at all levels ( including party and state organisations, foreign embassies and consulates ), provide personal protection to senior government officials, provide security functions to public corporations and major public events.
The new arrangement left many senior Prussian generals with serious misgivings about leading diverse military forces to guard a pre-war frontier that, except for the northernmost section was part of two other states of the new Empire – Baden and Bavaria.
This principle is designed to guard against unnecessary intrusion by the FSA into firms ’ business and requires it to hold senior management responsible for risk management and controls within firms.
Fernandes doubts this explanation, pointing out that the generally accepted way to guard against loss of a secret key is secret splitting, which would divide the key into several different parts, which would then be distributed throughout senior management.
Jack was an honorable mention All-Ohio selection in basketball as a shooting guard his senior year, and received some recruiting interest from college basketball programs, including Ohio State.
The Jovians () and Herculians ( Latin: Herculiani ) were the senior palatine imperial guard units of the Emperors of the late Roman Empire and the early Byzantine Empire from the 290s until the 7th century.
In September 1990, during the lead-up to the Gulf War after Saddam Hussein had invaded Kuwait, General Dugan revealed to reporters that the U. S. military had plans to bomb Baghdad relentlessly and " decapitate " the Iraqi leadership by targeting Hussein personally, along with his family, his senior commanders, his palace guard and even his mistress.
After being loudly ordered to take a lunch break by senior guard Bruno ( Tom Lister, Jr .), they happen upon an armed robbery of the warehouse and prove no match for the thieves.
As a senior on the basketball team, he averaged twelve points per game as a guard and the team was the state title runner-up.
Gothic sineigs " old ", sinista " oldest ") and scalc " servant ", ultimately a calque of Late Latin senior scholaris " senior guard ".
The scholae in the late Roman Empire referred to the imperial guard, divided into senior ( seniores ) and junior ( juniores ) units.
With the arrival obviously not expected by the TACEVAL directing staff the vehicle was placed under armed guard and the ROC officer bundled into the station guardroom where he remained locked up for several hours until the senior ROC officer was located to vouch for him.
Although the Yeomen of the Guard is older, the Gentlemen at Arms are more senior, due to their being classed as ' gentlemen ' rather than ' yeomen ', and because they are classed as the ' nearest guard ', i. e. the personal guard to the Sovereign.
A 5 '- 10 " guard, she was a third-team AP All-American ( first team Academica All American ) selection her senior season ( 1997 – 1998 ), averaging 22. 1 points and 5. 3 rebounds a game.
* Inclusion in a " senior civil guard of honour " at the 2004 opening of the Parliament of South Africa.
Chrebet was stopped and detained at the front gate on his first day of training camp by the senior New York Jets security guard who did not believe Chrebet could actually be a football player due to his relatively small size.

senior and units
Armies that apply forward tactical control generally put the majority of the more senior officers of artillery units forward in command observation posts or with the supported arm.
He placed loyal but often unqualified Cyrenaicans in all senior command positions, limited the armed forces to 6, 500 men, kept the army lightly armed, and built up two rival paramilitary units, the National Security Force and the Cyrenaican Defence Force which was recruited from Cyrenaican Bedouin loyal to the Sanussi.
Front disc brakes became standard equipment in 1965 on the Rambler Marlin ( the Bendix units were optional on all American Motors " senior " platform models ), the Ford Thunderbird, and the Lincoln Continental.
A purge of senior officials and the leadership of the European military units followed.
Downtown revitalization includes hundreds of new senior housing units, a new senior center, and expanded open space.
While these new senior citizen housing units are being built, luxury homes are also being constructed.
After about a year, the squadron was re-designated as the 429th Electronic Combat Squadron as part of the Air Force heritage program keeping notable senior units active.
These Republican Guards belong to the Cavalry Regiment and not to the infantry units whose mission is to ensure the security of these palaces and of senior government figures.
All units of the Canadian Forces also have an order of precedence that determines seniority ; it often decides such matters as which unit forms up to the right ( senior side ) of other units on a ceremonial parade, or the order in which marches or calls are played at a Mess Dinner.
At unit level, the unit S-1 ( personnel officer ) doubles as the unit commander's adjutant, although in recent times in many units this practice has been left only for ceremonial purposes, while for everyday duties a senior NCO performs the adjutant's activities.
In 2000, the United States Environmental Protection Agency declared a area including parts of Centredale Manor and Brook Village, both affordable housing units for senior citizens, a superfund site.
The Presidential Unit Citation is a senior unit award granted to military units which have performed an extremely meritorious or heroic act, usually in the face of an armed enemy.
Bai also commanded the forward units which first entered Beijing and was credited with being the senior commander on site to complete the Northern Expedition.
It had been deliberately dispersed throughout several camps during its stateside training ; some of its artillery units were summoned to France before they had completed their courses of instruction, and were never fully equipped until after the Armistice ; nearly all its senior white officers scorned the men under their command and repeatedly asked to be transferred ; the black enlisted men were frequently diverted from their already attenuated training opportunities in France in the summer of 1918 and put to work as stevedores and common laborers.
Two senior officers who had been opposed to the Raiders on this basis advanced to positions where they could abolish the units.
The Young Guard consisted of the best of the annual intake of conscripts and volunteers, and was never considered to be of quite the same caliber of the senior Guards, although its units were still superior to the normal line regiments.
Nevertheless, during this time large numbers of officers and senior non commissioned officers from the 3rd Division volunteered for service with the 2nd AIF and many units lost a large amount of their experienced personnel at this time.
Household Division is a term used principally in the Commonwealth of Nations to describe a country ’ s most elite or historically senior military units, or those military units that provide ceremonial or protective functions associated directly with the head of state.
Wavell expected that these irregular forces would be able to tie down large numbers of Italian units throughout the colony, although Lieutenant-General William Platt, Wavell's senior commander in the Sudan did not believe that Hailie Selassie had the support of the majority of the Ethiopian people and was lukewarm towards providing support to the patriot groups.

senior and were
Not only did senior army generals occupy the presidency from 1964 until 1985, but most of the officers who held cabinet posts during that time were from the army.
Inviting his most senior officers to dinner, Bonaparte asked them how they were.
According to Ivinskaya, People who arrived in Peredelkino early in the morning on the day of the funeral told us that militiamen, commanded by very senior officers, were already stationed at the approaches to the village.
In 1995 there were 1, 290 BJU graduates serving as senior or associate pastors in fundamentalist churches across the United States.
The King, senior Anglican bishops, MPs from the Liberal and Labour parties, Oswald Mosley, Jan Smuts, the Trades Union Congress and parts of the press were increasingly critical of the actions of the Black and Tans.
The position of sachem descended through families, and were allocated by senior female relatives.
In 1885, Hughes met Antoinette Carter, the daughter of a senior partner of the law firm where he worked, and they were married in 1888.
Forty percent of these newcomers to the senior colleges were open-admissions students.
CUNY reported that the number of African-American students at its senior colleges had increased in the same time period, while changes in the proportions of other ethnic groups were " minimal.
Senator John Kerry's 1988 Committee on Foreign Relations report on Contra drug links concluded that " senior U. S. policy makers were not immune to the idea that drug money was a perfect solution to the Contras ' funding problems.
It was discontinued as a rank in these services during the postwar period, but as an appointment, the title " commodore " was then used to identify senior U. S. Navy captains who commanded squadrons of more than one vessel or functional air wings or air groups that were not part of a carrier air wing or air group.
Enrollees were eligible for " rated " positions to help with camp administration: senior leader, mess steward, store keeper and two cooks ; assistant leader, company clerk, assistant educational advisor and three second cooks.
Each section had an enrollee " senior leader " and " assistant leader " who were accountable for the men at work and in the barracks.
His new expertise in tank warfare was strengthened by a close collaboration with George S. Patton, Sereno E. Brett, and other senior tank leaders ; their leading-edge ideas of speed-oriented offensive tank warfare were strongly discouraged by superiors who considered the new approach too radical and preferred the tank continue to be used in a strictly supportive role for the infantry.
The PwC research found that among FTSE 350 companies in the United Kingdom in 2002 almost 40 % of senior management posts were occupied by women.
These statements, made by Andy Mattes, the senior vice president of EDS Americas, were quoted from a podcast of the town hall and broadcast in the news report.
Costs, not unlike the senior series, were getting out of control.
A further attempt in daylight succeeded in breaking into the position but intense fire from three sides resulted in control being lost as the commanding officer was killed, and four of his senior officers were wounded or went missing.
From 2009, all senior trios and mixed pairs were required to be on the larger floor ( 10x10m ), all groups also perform on this floor.
After the Restoration, Charles ' Scottish affairs were managed by senior noblemen, the most prominent of whom was John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, his Secretary of State and High Commissioner to the Scottish Parliament.
< Blockquote > The supreme decision-making bodies of the Hezbollah were divided between the Majlis al-Shura ( Consultative Assembly ) which was headed by 12 senior clerical members with responsibility for tactical decisions and supervision of overall Hizballah activity throughout Lebanon, and the Majlis al-Shura al-Karar ( the Deciding Assembly ), headed by Sheikh Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah and composed of eleven other clerics with responsibility for all strategic matters.
According to John L. Allen, Jr., " In addition, three decades of bishops ’ appointments by John Paul II and Benedict XVI, both unambiguously committed to “ Humanae Vitae ,” mean that senior leaders in Catholicism these days are far less inclined than they were in 1968 to distance themselves from the ban on birth control, or to soft-pedal it.
Among those who were fascinated was Dorothy de Santillana, a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin, to whom Kosinski confided that he had a manuscript based on his experiences.
Other debilitating scandals included " Arms to Iraq " – the ongoing inquiry into how government ministers including Alan Clark ( also involved in an unrelated scandal involving the revelation of his affair with the wife and both daughters of a South African judge ) had encouraged businesses to supply arms to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, in breach of the official arms embargo, and how senior ministers had, on legal advice, attempted to withhold evidence of this official connivance when directors of Matrix Churchill were put trial for breaking the embargo.
Almost all of the initially favourable reports Ribbentrop provided to Berlin about the alliance's prospects were based on friendly remarks about the " New Germany " from various British aristocrats like Lord Londonderry and Lord Lothian ; the rather cool reception that Ribbentrop received from British Cabinet ministers and senior bureaucrats did not make much of an impression on him at first.

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