Sentence examples for chief of defense from inspiring English sources

The secretary is advised by the chief of defense staff, who is aided by the three service chiefs.

Nevertheless, the ruling military council eventually chose General Abubakar, the chief of defense staff, as the new head of state.

During his overnight stay in Cairo, Dunford met with Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi and Lt. Gen. Mahmoud Hegazy, the country's chief of defense.

Several top military officials were deposed in that reshuffle, including the former chief of defense staff, who was from the delta region.

"Hamid Karzai was saying he did not want to fight," said Khan Muhammad, 40, the chief of defense of the four southern provinces.

Gen. Sir Charles Guthrie, the chief of defense staff and Britain's top soldier, visited Freetown today, meeting with President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah and Maj.

We are augmented by former chiefs of defense and elder statesmen from the third senior party of British politics, the Liberal Democrats, which recently joined with the Conservatives to form our current coalition government.

I had – each of the chiefs of defense came to me and says if you ever need my forces in a mission of which they are prevented from doing, all you have to do is give me a call and I will make sure that you have the forces that you need.

But with the new protocol, Mr. Gates has restored a more official appearance to military culture in its conduct of day-to-day business, at least within his own office, where foreign ministers and chiefs of defense arrive in suits or the equivalent of the military business uniforms of their home nations.

The presidency announced the removal of the chiefs of defense, army, navy and air force and named their successors without explanation.

The extremely large eyes placed far back on the elongated head admirably suit the horse for its chief mode of defense: flight.