Sentences with phrase «american army general»
An American army general, Creighton Abrams once said, «When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time.»
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The rest of the tale is hearsay: that a heavily indebted Heywood, a former family friend and fixer who had helped get Bo junior into Harrow (Heywood's prestigious alma mater in England) had demanded a bigger cut of a business deal; that he threatened to expose underhanded dealings by Gu if he didn't get it; that Bo's police chief, Wang Lijun, had confronted him over the alleged murder (the death was originally put down to alcohol poisoning), after which Wang sought asylum at an American consulate; that Gu had shown up at a police station in a People's Liberation Army major - general's uniform to announce that she was under special orders from Beijing to «protect» Comrade Wang; that the couple had plotted to assassinate Wang and came up with three separate storylines to avoid being implicated.
Both generals would earn historical prestige leading their respective armies against each other during the American Civil War, but they weren't always enemies.
Resentments of America returned, 50 years after General Eisenhower's (mainly American) armies had liberated western Europe, including most of Germany, 75 years after General Pershing's Expeditionary Forces saved the victory of France and the British Empire on the Western Front, and as soon as American firmness and economic and military power had induced the bloodless collapse of the Soviet empire and Union, and of international communism.
Bolivia seemed to enjoy overwhelming advantages over Paraguay: it had thrice the latter's population, an army well - trained by the German general Hans von Kundt, and an ample supply of arms purchased by loans from American banks.
The «Father» of the Nation, being the United States of America is quoted saying; «The General is sorry to be informed — , that the foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing, a vice heretofore little known in an American army, is growing into a fashion; — he hopes the officers will, by example as well as influence, endeavor to check it, and that both they and the men will reflect that we can have little hope of the blessing of Heaven on our arms, if we insult it by impiety and folly; added to this, it is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it.»
After service as an Army officer in World War II, he was playing shortstop for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro American League when he was signed to a minor league contract by «The Mahatma,» Branch Rickey, a cigar - chomping Methodist and the Dodgers» general manager.
Mr. Sheppard (Shep, to his friends) has in his time scratched up the U.S. Army, a U.S. Senator, the Attorney General's office, the New York State Harness Racing Commission and the American labor movement, all of which have been foolish enough to do him battle.
The video is a rap - spoof of a media interview with «General Baxter, representing AFRICOM», probably a play on the American Union Army General Henry Baxter (1821 — 1873) who fought during the American Civil War.
Cuomo, who has called for the re-naming of streets that are part of an Army base in New York City named for Confederate generals, said Columbus has a different meaning for Italian - Americans.
The awards which were presented by John Milton, renowned American Journalist with specialty in photojournalism and Patrick Smith, Editor in Chief, African Confidential Magazine were received by Major General Chris Jemitola, Chief of Policy and Plans (Army), on behalf of the Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusufu Buratai and the Nigerian Army.
When asked to adopt the leadership of the SNP following the resignation of John Swinney in 2004, Salmond quoted union army general William Sherman, who, on being asked to run for president following the American Civil War, declared: «If nominated I'll decline.
He became a Captain in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in 1955 and practiced general medicine at a Station Hospital connected with the American Hospital in Paris, France.
This alien spider soon becomes the interest of an American military general who plans to use the queen to create an army of «super bullet proof spiders», but our main focus is on two bland divorce couple trying to save their daughter.