Sentence examples for closest comrade from inspiring English sources

But though he was not seen, the press until September heralded him as Mao's "closest comrade in arms" and a "shining example" of revolutionary fervor and correctness.

How many stayed that way?" It's a line that makes perfect sense if the dark knight's greatest nemesis used to be his closest comrade.

It was less than a month after the tragic suicide of Alexander Berkman, her closest comrade and "chum of a life-time". The promise of an anarchist revolution in Spain revived Goldman's broken spirit.

From 1961 to 1965, Mr. Ecevit served as minister of labor, and in 1972 he deposed his mentor, Ismet Inonu, who had been Ataturk's closest comrade, to take over leadership of the party.

A Turning Point in Life On Feb. 4, 1992, Mr. Chavez, Francisco Arias Cardenas, then his closest comrade in arms but now his challenger in Sunday's vote, and other officers attacked the presidential palace.

All of the polls show Mr. Chavez, a former army colonel who in 1992 mounted an unsuccessful coup attempt, leading Mr. Arias Cardenas, who also took part in the coup attempt and was until recently considered the president's closest comrade in arms.

After graduating, in 1979, he took a coveted job as an aide to Geng Biao, a senior defense official whom Xi's father called "my closest comrade-in-arms" from the revolution.

Sam Dillon (NYT) VENEZUELA: OPPOSING CHAVEZ -- President Hugo Chavez's closest comrade-in-arms in an unsuccessful coup attempt in 1992 said he would oppose Mr. Chavez in presidential elections on May 28.

Miskiri played alongside one of his closest comrades, Steve Francis.

Lenin and his closest comrades were left an isolated band swimming against the current.

Mr Xi is the son of one of Mao's closest comrades.