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lieutenant-colonel

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  • noun Alternative form of lieutenant colonel.

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Examples

  • The generals had been shocked when in 1998 Yeltsin sent this lieutenant-colonel, still wet behind the ears, to command them.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • The generals had been shocked when in 1998 Yeltsin sent this lieutenant-colonel, still wet behind the ears, to command them.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • How fair could this jury be given that it included a Navy captain, a Marine colonel who was wounded in a firefight in Iraq, an Army lieutenant-colonel who served more than a year at an unnamed detention center, a Navy commander, an Army lieutenant-colonel who once served as a military policeman, a Navy lieutenant-commander who is a submarine officer and an Army major in military intelligence.

    Maher Arar: Omar Khadr: America's Injustice, Canada's Shame Maher Arar 2010

  • Three European U.N. staff members—a female Norwegian lieutenant-colonel, and heads of the U.N. political and human-rights sections—were killed, according to diplomats in Kabul.

    Afghan Anger at Quran Burning Turns Deadly Dion Nissenbaum 2011

  • Two senior officers, a major and a lieutenant-colonel, were among the eight killed, said the officials.

    Car bomb kills 8 soldiers in Yemen 2011

  • How fair could this jury be given that it included a Navy captain, a Marine colonel who was wounded in a firefight in Iraq, an Army lieutenant-colonel who served more than a year at an unnamed detention center, a Navy commander, an Army lieutenant-colonel who once served as a military policeman, a Navy lieutenant-commander who is a submarine officer and an Army major in military intelligence.

    Maher Arar: Omar Khadr: America's Injustice, Canada's Shame Maher Arar 2010

  • But Kaminer said she was proud to have had five children who went on to prosperous lives, including a commercial real estate agent and a lieutenant-colonel in the army.

    Leona Gage, Miss USA Winner Who Had Title Stripped, Dies At 71 AP 2010

  • But Kaminer said she was proud to have had five children who went on to prosperous lives, including a commercial real estate agent and a lieutenant-colonel in the army.

    Leona Gage, Miss USA Winner Who Had Title Stripped, Dies At 71 AP 2010

  • Now that we wore rank, it fell upon lieutenant-colonel Christopher Stanford to say something profound.

    365 tomorrows » 2009 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2009

  • Two senior officers, a major and a lieutenant-colonel, were among the eight killed, said the officials.

    Car bomb kills 8 soldiers in Yemen 2011

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