Sentences with phrase «of army general»

Former head of the Army General Sir Richard Dannatt has suggested «vested interests» within the Ministry of Defence (MoD) let down troops on the ground in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The site's raison d'être is to highlight incumbent Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer's upbraiding of an Army general for repeatedly referring to her by the female honorific rather than as «Senator» during a hearing — pretty thin gruel for a scandal, though not Boxer's best moment as an elected official.

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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.

In February, Lieutenant - General Patrick Sanders, Commander Field Army, praised the inclusion of LGBT personnel in the British Army, whom he said made the Army «stronger and more effective.»

Film and television stars, on the other hand, employ an army of public relations professionals tasked with ensuring their clients are seen as «normal» by the general population.

Surace inherited much of his intensity from his father, a retired Army man and longtime General Electric executive who adapted the rigor - and - results focus of both those organizations to running his household.

Yet this obscures the reality that, already by late 1914, all belligerents were stuck in a war that was supposed to have ended soon, according to optimists across Europe, but inconveniently had not, leaving the armies jammed in a conflict that generals and politicians could see no easy way out of.

Here's what we do know about the state of Afghan security forces: A September report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction indicated that ANDSF is nowhere near its 352,000 target personnel level: Afghan National Army force strength, in particular, fell from 185,817 in September 2013 to 168,327 in November 2016, thanks to increasing attrition rates and fluctuating readiness.

The Iranian army's Deputy Chief of Staff Brigadier General Ali Shadmani said Tuesday that «If the enemy makes a small mistake, we will shut the Strait of Hormuz, kill their sedition in the bud and endanger the arrogant powers» interests,» according to the Fars news agency.

General Bogdanov, the commander of the 2nd Guards Tank Army, and another Soviet general sat down by mistake on seats reserved for the German delegation.General Bogdanov, the commander of the 2nd Guards Tank Army, and another Soviet general sat down by mistake on seats reserved for the German delegation.general sat down by mistake on seats reserved for the German delegation.»

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.

The expected guilty plea makes the retired Army lieutenant general the first person to have actually worked in the Trump White House to face formal charges in the investigation, which is examining possible coordination between Russia and the Trump campaign to influence the outcome of the 2016 election.

Petraeus, a four - star general married for 37 years, stepped down as head of the US spy agency just three days after President Barack Obama's re-election over his fling with Broadwell, an army reservist who traveled to Afghanistan to write a glowing biography of the general.

The People's Liberation Army Daily on Wednesday published its list of attendees for the upcoming 19th party congress in Beijing on October 18, with two notable exclusions: Fang Fenghui, who was recently replaced as the chief at the Joint Staff Department in China's military and is currently under investigation for corruption, and General Zhang Yang, the director of the political work department, who also sits on the military commission.

During the Civil War, President Lincoln rewarded Grant with a promotion to lieutenant general and made him general - in - chief of the armies.

In Afghanistan, U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal was focused on one thing: devising the best plan of attack.

The key players here are: Grace Mugabe, who wants to succeed her husband; Emmerson Mnangagwa, until last week the vice-president; and General Constantino Chiwenga, the head of the army.

It comes to us from a U.S. Army general we know who got so sick of updates without substance that he banned gerunds from his subordinates» reports.

The first was General Tian Xiusi, a former political commissar of the People's Liberation Army Air Force and a member of the party's elite Central Committee.

The founder of the greatest rock band of all time might have a had much different path in life if he hadn't received a general discharge for poor conduct nine months into an Army enlistment in his late teens — a stint that actually included basic training at California's Fort Ord.

He is a 2005 graduate of West Point and was the 2015 recipient of the George Marshall Award from the Army Command and General Staff College.

It soon became clear, however, that implementing the various recommendations and agreements was being opposed by conservatives in the KMT, who feared these measures would dilute their party's control of the government, and by Nationalist generals, who objected to reducing the size of their armies.

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.

A military conflict appears to be brewing between the Libyan National Army of General Haftar and the western militias.

WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump's choice of John Bolton to replace Army Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster as national security adviser replaces a restraining influence in the president's inner circle with a dedicated hawk.

«There is a fight between Diosdado and Tareck for control of the industry,» said Hebert Garcia, a former army general who later broke with Maduro and fled the country.

The honored guest and presenter was Major General Neal Loidolt, U.S. Army, Commanding General of the fabled 34th Infantry Division (the «Red Bulls»), who spoke about the U.S. Military's role in global security, and the National Guard's role in that ongoing mission.

Hwang Pyong So was apparently dismissed as director of the Korean People's Army General Political Bureau and succeeded by Kim Jong Gak, former minister of the People's Armed Forces.

To quote from the original paper defining the B.G.P.: «[Imagine] a group of generals of the Byzantine army camped with their troops around an enemy city.

«My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, Commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius, father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife, and I will have my vengeance - in this life or the next.»

Should we change the names of the ten army bases named after Confederate generals?

Because of its general enlightenment, the Salvation Army is more successful than the rescue mission in this regard.

Deborah was a general in the ancient armies of Judah.

Before Lincoln's emancipation act many generals had simply turned Negroes over to the Army chaplain to take care of them.

For example, as early as 20 years ago General Frederick Coutts of the Salvation Army wrote: «Salvationists are identified with the high ideals of social justice and acceptance of the unchallenged rights of every man as stated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights» (Human Rights and the Salvation Army [Campfield Press, 19681, p. 5)

While the United States bishops focused on nuclear war, a more general judgment about modern war as inherently unjust had been present in Catholic thought since at least 1870, the year when a group of bishops, in a Postulata addressed to Pope Pius XI and the First Vatican Council, excoriated the expense of «huge standing and conscript armies» and the prospect of «illegal and unjust wars, or rather hideous massacres spreading far and wide.»

It was this general intention that made the primitive Christians such eminent instances of piety, that made the goodly fellowship of the Saints and all the glorious army of martyrs and confessors.

Here, for example, there is undoubtedly coincidence between the anointing of Jehu and the existence of a conspiracy among the generals of Joram's army.

The coup that threatened to topple General Ibrahim Babangida's government in April of 1990 was by all accounts generated by Christians in the army» most of whom are still in place.

Although my background includes graduation from West Point, Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army War College, overseas service in Okinawa, Germany and Vietnam, combat duty as a company commander in Korea and chaplain assignments at every level of the army, including the Pentagon, none of this experience has prevented a gradual but inexorable change in my viewpoint during the past two yeArmy War College, overseas service in Okinawa, Germany and Vietnam, combat duty as a company commander in Korea and chaplain assignments at every level of the army, including the Pentagon, none of this experience has prevented a gradual but inexorable change in my viewpoint during the past two yearmy, including the Pentagon, none of this experience has prevented a gradual but inexorable change in my viewpoint during the past two years.

Meanwhile, the all - volunteer army has emerged as an ever more separate institution in our society, its profile less and less like that of the general populace.

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.»

Once established as king, he was able to augment his private army with thousands of Israelite soldiers, under the command of seasoned and able generals.

Yahweh fights, with the divine army, of which the stars are a part, 8 against the kings and their general, Sisera.

A miracle which was often repeated during times of drought and general thirst in the army was the production of an abundant yield of water from a little vessel which the Prophet blessed by putting his fingers in it.

It's like a herald in an army going out and giving the conditions of surrender to the general of the opposing army.

The story concerns the famous general Scipio Aemilianus and is set at the time of his arrival in North Africa, two years before armies under his command would destroy Carthage (146 b.c.).

Boyd believes the DKBA general offered the army troops part of the bribe to dissuade the military regime's general.

The very fact that according to Olmert there is no partner on the Palestinian side obliges the Israeli army and the Israeli General Security Service to be present on the other side of the convergence line.

just b / c God's army was made up of bajiliions doesn't mean they were all gods... there is only one General on the field my friend, the rest are soldiers