Sentence examples for been a comrade of from inspiring English sources

Also defending Berkman was Dyer Lum, an anarchist who had been a comrade of the Haymarket defendants, and Lucy Parsons.

By 1978, many people, led by General Huang Kecheng (who had been a comrade of Peng's since Peng rebelled against the Kuomintang in 1928) were agitating for Peng's posthumous rehabilitation.

A lawyer turned journalist, he was a comrade of Mahatma Gandhi in the earliest noncooperation movements for independence and was also president of the Indian National Congress (1934, 1939, and 1947).

He told me what lies behind the two main factions: "Operation Dignity is led by a retired General, (Khalifa) Haftar - he was a comrade of Gaddafi some 45 years ago when Gaddafi staged a coup, he was one of his partners, then they fell out.

Working mostly from abroad, Mbeki was a comrade of Robert Mugabe, who was engaged in a similar struggle in neighboring Rhodesia.

Shaw is a comrade of Kobe Bryant and is well respected around the league as a player's coach who also knows when to firm the grip.

He was a comrade and a partner of mine in a historic endeavor of the city of Los Angeles.

The Swift boat crewmen are toted everywhere to vouch that John Kerry is a comrade, not just a set of political calculations.

To find out why and how these wasps employ both vision and scent to determine if an incoming wasp is a comrade, scientists carried out a series of experiments on 50 colonies (see photo above) in the wild.

He was a comrade-in-arms of Leo the Armenian, who later became Emperor Leo V (813).

There has been persistent speculation that Mr Bo enjoyed close ties with military leaders (his late father, Bo Yibo, was a comrade-in-arms of Mao Zedong).In recent weeks numerous articles have appeared in the official media attacking the notion of placing the armed forces under the control of the state, rather than the party.