colonels

The real issue there is when will they start to appoint the assistant secretaries and the worker bees, what I call the colonels and lieutenant colonels at all the government agencies who do a lot of the work.

CNN Transcript Feb 23, 2009 2009

Perhaps in an effort not to label the colonels unfairly and write them off emotionally, Ronald Steel has ended up protesting too much.

The Men Who Forgot Math and Poetry 2009

Among his colonels was the scoundrel McGarry, who, in cold blood, murdered the old Shawnee chief, Molunthee, several hours after he had been captured; the shame of the barbarous deed being aggravated by the fact that the old chief had always been friendly to the Americans.

The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 Theodore Roosevelt 1888

In reading this correspondence, I have found these great muftis and lawyers, these great chief-justices, attorneys-general, and solicitors-general, called colonels and captains, ashamed of these proceedings, and endeavoring to mitigate their cruelty; yet we see

The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 12 (of 12) Edmund Burke 1763

He is giving you information on Lashkar training camps and what is the role of so-called colonels and majors and so on ...

rediff.com 2010

In October 1939 al­-Husseini already had gone to Baghdad and met with the Committee of Free Arabs, which was led by the so-called colonels of the Golden Square, to discuss plans for a revolution against the British.

Latest Articles 2009

The present situation, under which only more junior military officers, such as colonels and captains, are allowed to visit Taiwan, doesn't work.

Archive 2006-09-01 Michael Turton 2006

The present situation, under which only more junior military officers, such as colonels and captains, are allowed to visit Taiwan, doesn't work.

American Enterprise Institute on Taiwan & Bush Admnistration Michael Turton 2006

Non-combatants were promoted to "colonels," and authentic heroes were immortalized in marble.

The Cult of the Lost Cause Woodward, C. Vann 1980

Our simple forms of titular respect have been condemned abroad, and we are accused of being all "colonels" and "generals;" but a wife should still give her husband his title.

Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood