Sentence examples for chief claiming from inspiring English sources

He went after the president's ability to "speak to the nation as a commander in chief," claiming that the speech damaged his presence.

His counter-terrorism chief claimed that the terrorists were "on the run".

But last year Salvatore Mancuso, a now-demobilised AUC military chief, claimed to control 30% of the Congress.

Thomas Jackson, the Ferguson police chief, claimed on Tuesday that exceptional circumstances meant that did not apply in this case.

The security chief claimed the man was ill and needed to go to hospital, and once the detainee's shackles were off the pair escaped.

On Saturday, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, the army chief, claimed to in a speech before Afghan military cadets to have broken the back of militants in the country.

Peter Sherrard, the communications chief, claimed he paid "no attention to anything the ASA says" and both Ryanair and the ASA referred the other to the Office of Fair Trading OFTT).

A former senior Iraqi intelligence chief claimed the project Moore was working on would have laid bare exactly where all Iraq's money was going.

His research chief claimed he had mixed up the results of a series of experiments and Dr Pusztai was retired forthwith, and told to say no more.

By December, with the relationship at a breaking point, the police chief claimed that the mayor had tried to stop officers from carrying out raids to seize hundreds of gambling machines.

The Tigers have lost vast swathes of terrain and large numbers of fighters.Citing intercepted communications, General Sarath Fonseka, the army chief, claimed this week that some 8,000 rebels were killed in fighting last year alone.