Sentence examples for best generals from inspiring English sources

Many of Genghis Khan's best generals were nökhör.

His paranoia decapitated the Red Army leadership: the best generals were murdered or jailed.

He was not one of the best generals; he simply did not like war.

He claimed the revolt started after a grenade attack by Taliban prisoners that killed two of his best generals.

The most sensible artists, like the best generals, are focussed on, and fighting, the next battle, their own.

Hundreds of billions of dollars, hundreds of thousands of troops, and the best generals on the planet can be undercut by a disgruntled accountant, commanding the world's attention with a bomb that didn't even explode.

In 1996 Kenneth Macksey rocked the world of military history with his book Why The Germans Lose at War. Nazi fetishists everywhere smacked their tattooed foreheads as they realised, most for the first time, that although the Germans had the sexiest uniforms, the coolest tanks and all the best generals, they did in fact lose with tedious regularity.

Meanwhile, Cleopatra defeats several of Octavian's legions, causing him to send one of his best generals to eliminate her.

After reconquering lost territory, Khosrau II withdrew from the battlefield and handed military operations to his best generals.

Nansouty had been earning a high revenue from his various positions during the Empire and additionally Napoleon was constantly paying high endowments to his best generals.

The highly resistant cultivars were the best general combiners, while the susceptible cultivars generally produced negative GCA values.