Sentence examples for a general he from inspiring English sources

"I'm not a liberal, I'm a general," he would brag.

"Every soldier wants to be a general," he intoned gravely.

Speaking as a general, he offered a prescription for Sierra Leone.

Because Ripley reported to the secretary of war, not a general, he was immune from the board's orders.

Despite his talents as a general, he could not hold back the overwhelming numbers of British reinforcements.

Already a general, he had the previous year quarrelled with India's defence minister, V.K. Krishna Menon, about national security.

As a general rule, he said he instructs staff members to think like journalists.

He's not a general and he's not a sergeant — he's a colonel".

A former general, he is Myanmar's first civilian president for half a century.

Appointed a brigadier general, he saw action at Brandywine and Germantown.

In 1798, as a brigadier general, he was made lieutenant governor of St. Lucia.