Examples of captaincy

• She lost her captaincy of the volleyball team.

• He will bring the same intensity to his captaincy that he brought to the team as a player.

• The captaincy of an aircraft carrier calls for skills far different from the captaincy of a sailing vessel.

• In 1756 he was promoted to a captaincy of marines.

• The issue of communities is as complex as the differences among the brotherhoods in such a vast captaincy.

• The ship of state was sailing on a narrower and therefore less even keel, as it were; its inflexible captaincy paradoxically giving greater leeway to external pressures.

• As a consequence, under your captaincy, our hull is pressed deep into the waterline under the accumulated weight of your debt.

• Fourthly, they do not possess what one might term the quality of captaincy.