Jenkins Sentence Examples

The fort and the settlement were named in honour of General William Jenkins Worth (1794-1849), a native of Hudson, New York, who served in the War of 1812, commanded the United States forces against the Seminole Indians in 1841-1842, served under both General Taylor and General Scott in the Mexican War, distinguishing himself at Monterey (where he earned the brevet of major-general) and in other engagements, and later commanded the department of Texas.

It was not till 1834 that, overcome by the insistence of Captain Francis Jenkins, who maintained and proved that, called by the name Camellia or not, the leaves belonged to a tea-plant, Dr Wallich admitted "the fact of the genuine tea-plant being a native of our territories in Upper Assam as incontrovertibly proved."

The discovery and reports of Captain Jenkins led to the investigation of the capacities of Assam as a tea-growing country by Lord William Bentinck's committee.

A commission, consisting of Sir Lawrence Jenkins, Lieut.-Colonel Bomford, M.D., principal of the Medical College, Calcutta, and Major Semple, R.A.M.C., director of the Pasteur Institute, Kasauli, was appointed by the government of India to inquire into the disaster.

Jenkins was deputed by the governor-general of India, Lord William Bentinck, to report upon the resources of the country, and the tea plant was brought to his especial notice by Mr Bruce; in 1834 a minute was recorded by the governor-general on the subject, in which it is stated that his attention had been called to it in 1827 before his departure from England.

From the bald assertion of her husband's guilt, Lois Jenkins makes a sudden leap to unexplained hints.

Sorry, if Jenkins and Co. wanted to run off and play in their own ballpark that was up to them.

Reverend Jenkins on September 11th 1826 became the first clergyman appointed to the Holy Trinity Church.

Blue is the South-East London blues of Billy Jenkins, who plays the guitar like a clown, a truly sad clown.

According to Simon Jenkins in the Times, Gordon Brown and I sit at the heart of a " vast cobweb " of targets.

The celebrity columnists of the day, such as Hazlitt, Dickens and Thackeray could rival the likes of Jenkins, Parris and Littlejohn.

Thus variety and breadth of learning and teaching methods characterize the geography curriculum (Jenkins, 1998 ).

Jenkins refers to ' the internal-external dialectic of identification ' (Jenkins, 1996 ).

Russell Jenkins ***************************************** We are pleased to announce that at last we have got a new duplicator for the Belfry bulletin.

Professor Nick Jenkins is a leading expert in renewable energy, distributed generation and high power electronic systems.

Combining Kong's DNA with some from her baby grandson, Jason Jenkins, a new Kong was born.

Channel Four said that the program had not suggested any impropriety on Ms Jenkins ' part concerning her care of the children.

Shortly before the half hour mark the game livened up when Luke Prince charged into the area to latch onto a Jenkins pass.

Jenkins and Zetter (2003) provide a very useful discussion of how the Teaching/Research nexus is central to Higher Education.

The author, Mike Finley, comes from a fairly orthodox angle, but also has a lot of respect for Jenkins ' work.

Good climb for Kaiser Chiefs, Katherine Jenkins ' Living a Dream remains the classical best-seller, and 12th overall.

Jenkins said that he trained on ' champagne and a dozen oysters ' .

Sian Jenkins works full-time as a ward domestic at Morriston hospital, Swansea, but is growing resentful of the inequality in the system.

Singing sensations... Probably the most famous soprano around at the moment, Katherine Jenkins is a former choir member.

The text of the sermon delivered by the Revd David Jenkins at Sunday morning 's communion service.

Tony Jenkins, Cardiff What 's better than being an insane fat sumo wrestler?

When I heard Mr Jenkins had been arrested on suspicion of murder, the shock was profound.

The game story, penned by former Hulk scribe Paul Jenkins, chronicles the struggle of Bruce Banner, the alter ego of the Hulk, to cope with and hopefully discover a cure for his destructive inner demons.

Never one to be alone for long, Victor eventually marries Diane Jenkins as a way to stick it to Jack.

In 2000, Jack’s former flame Diane Jenkins impregnated herself with sperm she believed to be Victor Newman’s and later learned was Jack’s.

Lauren Jenkins has two years of previous experience, which gives her a bit of an advantage over all the rookie players on many of the teams' rosters.

On August 19, 2009, news broke that a contestant on Megan Wants a Millionaire, Ryan Jenkins, was wanted for questioning in connection with the murder of his wife, lingerie model Jasmine Fior.

Fior was reported missing by Jenkins on August 15 and her body was later found in a trash can stuffed in a suitcase.

Police were unable to located Jenkins in the wake of the discovery.

Megan Wants a Millionaire wrapped in March, 2009, and in an interview with TMZ, Megan stated that Jenkins married Fior two days after he finished taping.

Jenkins was one of the contestants Megan frequently discussed being attracted to in her confessional interviews during the three episodes that aired, and the two had been on a solo date.

According to TMZ, sources with knowledge of the show said that Jenkins made it to the finals but was ultimately not picked.

Further complicating matters for VH1 is that fact that Jenkins had also finished taping I Love Money 3.

The same sources reported to TMZ that Jenkins was in fact the winner of that show, which was expected to being airing in fall 2009.

Sharra Jenkins is a former snowboarding instructor, who is now the technology manager for Destination Truth.