officer
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Paramount’s chief legal officer, Makan Delrahim, said Tuesday that a potential move out of state is on the table as it fights to close the $81 billion deal.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
That individual will be the Clacton MP once the result is declared by the returning officer.
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
“What is being sold on the black market is not a medicine — it is entirely unverified, unapproved and not worth the risk,” David Hyman, Lilly’s chief medical officer, said in a news release.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 12, 2026
Red Robin named Whataburger marketing chief Scott Hudler as its new chief marketing officer, succeeding interim CMO Russ Klein.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
“Well…” The female officer puts her hands on her hips.
From "Popcorn" by Rob Harrell
Some U.S. military officers, though, argue that drones are particularly deadly in this war because it has reached a stalemate with little battlefield movement.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
Like past after-action reports, the review was hyper-focused on the threats faced by officers, critics said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
In 1982, East Germany’s feared and formidable secret police, the Stasi, used a creative-writing class to train its intelligence officers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026
But when she tried to report the crime to police officers, she was turned away.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
Two police officers are helping someone get out of the back of the car.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
According to the agreement, British judges and assessors will sit on the benches of Ethiopian courts, the Ethiopian police force will be officered by Britons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Unlike the old Prussian Army, officered exclusively by aristocrats, every conscript will have an equal chance at an officer's commission.
From Time Magazine Archive
For months Mongokuo has had a de facto government, headed by Prince Teh, together with an army of some 10,000 Mongolians and Manchukuoans officered and commanded by Japanese.
From Time Magazine Archive
Admittedly, pacification is lagging woefully, and the South's army, officered largely by opportunists or languid political appointees, is a major weakness.
From Time Magazine Archive
It's open gossip all over the West that the P. S. L. is officered by a lot of dummies and place-hunters and relatives.
From The Wreckers by Francis Lynde
But decades of corruption in palace and government paid off disastrously in lack of ammunition, inferior arms and cowardly officering.
From Time Magazine Archive
General Arthur, by special request of Governor Morgan, resumed his duties as quartermaster-general and established a system of recruiting and officering the new levies, which proved wonderfully successful.
From The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 5, May, 1884 by Various
In addition to these improvements in the dress and discipline of the men, Peter adopted an entirely new system in officering his troops.
From Peter the Great by Jacob Abbott
A report which the Secretary of the Navy is preparing on the subject, to be laid before Congress, will shew at the same time the progress made in officering and manning these ships.
From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 1, part 4: James Madison by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson
There must be neither companies to fill their own pockets out of it, nor trustees who can cramp the management, or interfere with the officering, or shorten the supplies of it.
From On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature by John Ruskin
