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The
captain
of England’s professional women’s team, Steph Houghton, is paid just £65,000 ($90,000) a year, whereas Neymar, the world’s most expensive male player, receives roughly 500 times as much.
The national
captain
was revealed to have a conflict of interest, and the son-in-law of Indian cricket’s most powerful official was implicated in an illegal gambling operation run by a sinister network of bookies.
Of course, in strong winds and high seas, the experience of the ship’s
captain
matters.
Indeed, the captain, Gigi Buffon, sang with his eyes closed, as though in prayer.
The Japanese authorities clearly learned a lesson from their detention of a Chinese fishing boat
captain
two years ago, when they eventually acceded to Chinese pressure – which included a range of harsh, and escalating, political and economic measures– to release him.
Curious about the contents of the trunk, the
captain
of the ship crept down to Descartes’ cabin one night and opened it.
The captain, struck with revulsion, grabbed her, dragged her up to the deck of the ship, and threw her overboard.
It does so, but not before the
captain
receives assurances that a larger ship is coming to assist.
With the ocean getting rougher, the once-agile rescue vessel is now so overburdened that some officers are second-guessing the captain, who again calls for the larger ship to help.
When the French army
captain
Alfred Dreyfus was falsely accused of treason in a rigged trial in 1894, French society was divided between mostly conservative anti-Dreyfusards and liberal defenders of the Jewish officer.
Japan, facing mounting pressure from China, unconditionally released a Chinese trawler
captain
whose ship had rammed a Japanese naval patrol boat.
In short, while Europe has been a solid team player, it has not been a very good team
captain.
Rickover was a small man, far from the top of his class at the US Naval Academy, who did not look like a warrior or swashbuckling sea
captain.
Its American captain, Peter Willcox, and his international crew were searched and charged with piracy – a crime that carries a sentence of up to 15 years imprisonment and confiscation of property.
New cricketing heroes have emerged from small towns, none more popular than India’s swashbuckling captain, M.S. Dhoni, the son of a peon in the dusty town of Ranchi, who now commands millions in endorsement fees to tout products that his family could never have aspired to own.
Consider the case of Michael Clarke, the
captain
of the Australian cricket team, who recently threatened bodily harm to an opposing player.
Much as passengers want an experienced
captain
in charge when their aircraft develops a problem, an economic or financial crisis calls for a central banker with a clear view of what needs to be done and the confidence to take decisive action.
Its new president, a former army
captain
who wants to arm the citizenry and raze large swaths of the Amazon (which would significantly accelerate global warming), has become a lightning rod for student protests, environmentalists, and gay-rights activists.
This would require the Commission to stop trying to show at every opportunity that it is the
captain
of the ship.
Sporting TribesNEW YORK – Siya Kolisi, who raised the Webb Ellis Cup for his country in Yokohama, Japan, early this month, is the first black man to
captain
the South African national rugby union team, the Springboks, in a game that used to be associated entirely with white South Africans.
Jean de Villiers, a former Springbok captain, said the Springboks’ victory was “for the whole country.”
In a way, however, Michael Leitch, the
captain
of the Japanese team, the Brave Blossoms, is an even more remarkable phenomenon.
And yet he was made
captain
of the national team.
It was akin to a fire
captain
yelling in a crowded hall: “You are about to burn.
A handwritten sign posted at the memorial service for David Dorn, a black retired police
captain
shot by looters at a pawn shop, read: “Y’ALL KILLED A BLACK MAN BECAUSE ‘THEY’ KILLED A BLACK MAN???”Enjoy unlimited access to the ideas and opinions of the world's leading thinkers, including weekly long reads, book reviews, and interviews;The Year Ahead annual print magazine; the complete PS archive; and more – All for less than $9 a month.
Bolsonaro, a former Army captain, seems confident that any military intervention would be in his favor.
In the film, Polanski exhumes the sordid story of the Dreyfus Affair, when hysteria and lumpen anti-Semitism consumed France following the 1894 conviction of Alfred Dreyfus, an army
captain
of Jewish descent, on treason charges.
And there was another dispute: he leant out to watch if he could not see, coming out of Pierron's opposite, the
captain
of the Voreux, who was accused of sleeping with the Pierron woman, while his sister called to him that since the day before the husband had taken day duty at the pit-eye, and that certainly Dansaert could not have slept there that night.
Catherine, who appeared absorbed in her household duties, must, however, have been thinking of the stories told by Zacharie about the head
captain
and the Pierron woman, for she half opened the front door and glanced outside.
A captain, Father Richomme, a big man with the face of a good-natured gendarme, and with a straight grey moustache, was at that moment going towards the receiver's office.
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