8 sentences with 'corps'
Example sentences and phrases with the word corps and other words derived from it.
• « The guests were mostly the children of members of the diplomatic corps, with their girlfriends. »
• « Napoleon's family was not wealthy, but he had a legitimate noble title recognised by the French state, which meant that he was eligible to join the ranks of noble monopolies such as the officer corps of the French army. »
• « Napoleon was so adept at map reading that he could coordinate several army corps to march separately, miles apart, and then converge at a key moment to catch his enemies by surprise. »
• « Napoleon also turned the officer corps into a true meritocracy: an able soldier could now rise to command regardless of his social background. »
• « Even more threatening to the nobility than the loss of legal monopolies over land ownership, the army officer corps and political status was the enormous shift in wealth generation from land to trade and industry. »
• « This feeling was particularly acute in the French officer corps, as many of them had only been on the losing side in the wars (World War II and Indochina). They were therefore determined to keep Algeria at all costs. »
• « The boy found a flare light. He wanted to shoot it to call the medical corps, but as he could not open it with his hands, he pulled the top off with his teeth. »
• « Unconfirmed reports suggest that the CIA maintains a training corps for scanners recruited for their psychic powers. These would be endowed with powers that would allow them to block communication systems and influence the psyche of others. »