Sentence examples for brigadier from inspiring English sources

A Turkish official said a brigadier general was among 1,000 Syrians to flee across the border in the last 24 hours, Reuters reports.

"This is a difficult war to win," the bespectacled brigadier said.

Ben Barry, a former brigadier and a specialist in land warfare, based at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, led an analysis of the lessons of the Iraq campaign in his last job before retiring from the army in 2010.

The daughter of a brigadier general, who went on to become treasurer of the local Conservative party, Al had a privileged childhood, going to boarding school but feeling isolated.

By the time he was 25, he was Professor of Greek at Sydney University, and a second world war brigadier not so long after.

When the commander of the southern Somalia sector of Amisom, Kenyan brigadier Antony Ngere, showed me his map of "al-Shabaab infested areas" it included a large number of red blobs where Amisom rarely ventures.

The military analogy is fitting: XM's senior vice-president of engineering and operations is a retired air-force brigadier-general.Though the studios are impressive, the most critical component for digital radio is in the receiver.

Nobody has tried to explain how, if their part in the concealment of the massacre deserves to be punished at all, it can be adequately punished by demotion to brigadier-general and colonel.One thing that is totally impossible is that Mr Calley alone is guilty.

Indeed, though the president might think the French-dominated European Union peacekeeping force now deploying in the east is there to bolster his regime, Brigadier-General Jean-Philippe Ganascia says he is not out to fight for the government: "I won't know who is a rebel, bandit or anything else.

Their leader, Brigadier-General Laurent Nkunda, said he had been "mis-led" into thinking that the national army had been massacring Congolese members of his own Tutsi ethnic group in Bukavu.

Brigadier-General Jean Bosco Kazura, who was said to have been arrested after making an unannounced trip to South Africa to watch the World Cup, was merely reprimanded.