Sentences with word «generalissimo»
The word "generalissimo" refers to a person who holds the highest military rank or authority in a particular region or country. They have supreme command and control over the armed forces. Full definition
But why would a conclave of wise elders and seasoned political generalissimos bait themselves into sure misfortune, just because of the fortune of one man?
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Nebraska's governor is the very picture of a barbarian - quelling generalissimo.
The War of the Sons of Light with the Sons of Darkness is a plan for the conquest of the world by the Sons of Light; it is the Mein Kampf of the Dead Sea generalissimo, who describes the future in a way faintly reminiscent of the entrance of Israel into Canaan but more clearly based on Roman military organization, procedure and strategy.
Augusto Pinochet is the «jowly generalissimo».
Kurunmi, generalissimo of the Oyo imperial army, bated himself to self - ruin by his classic confrontation with Ibadan, the Oyo imperial garrison, under the command of Basorun Ogunmola, in those 19th century years of blood, gore and plunder, in the pre-colonial Yoruba country.
His kinsmen are not helping matters; some said he is alive, others argued that their political generalissimo is dead.
The situation is bizarre: a hostile pagan king asks an impossible favor for his generalissimo, thereby setting the stage for disappointment and what might well be the next political disaster.
The situation is bizarre: a hostile pagan king asks an impossible favor for his generalissimo, thereby setting the stage for disappointment and what might well be the next political disaster: «Just look,» says the king of Israel, «and see how he is trying to pick a quarrel with me.»
Numerous federations said they would boycott the Games and the generalissimo sulked.
Among the thousand there to greet the no - names by name was the generalissimo himself.
He is the generalissimo of the Nigerian politics.
Frantic, the aging patriarch and his adopted son race to El Paso, hoping to gather a group of cowboys brave enough to hunt down the generalissimo on his own turf.
Sure Francoist Spain (alternatively and more historically called Nationalist Spain) had Francisco Franco as the leader of Nationalist Spain, but the generalissimo had the Falange, the Alfonsine and Carlist monarchies and most of the Catholic clergy behind him.