Sentences with phrase «generalissimo of»

He is the generalissimo of the Nigerian politics.
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.

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Nebraska's governor is the very picture of a barbarian - quelling generalissimo.
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.»
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.
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?
Disregard the generalissimos and colonels of Group 2 and (likely, soon enough again) Group 1.
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.
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