Sentence examples for for brigadier from inspiring English sources

I was the first person picked for brigadier general.

"All colonels are considered for brigadier general," said Lt. David Nevers, a Marine Corps spokesman.

No decision has yet been made about the seventh nominee returned without action by the Senate: Col. David Teeples, an Army officer who was nominated for brigadier general.

He retired from the military in 1977 after being passed over for brigadier general and then practiced law in Fort Walton Beach, Fla. Colonel Day represented military retirees in a federal court case aimed at securing what they said were health benefits once promised by their recruiters.

Although Montgomery knew he was under consideration for Brigadier General, he did not publicly show any desire for the appointment.

Magruder had also sent for Brigadier General Robert Ransom, Jr., under Huger's command, who noted that he had been given strict instructions to ignore any orders not originating from Huger, and apologetically said he could not help Magruder.

Named for the brigadier, a high ranking officer in the military, who ran for president in the 1946 election in Brazil.

"This is a fight for intelligence," Brigadier General Martin Dempsey, commander of the 1st Armored Division, told a reporter at a Baghdad press briefing in November.

He is currently detained in the Jakarta police headquarters, having been charged for assaulting Brigadier Hanafi at the game against Sriwijaya in June.

The intelligence commander for Basra, Brigadier Jabar Mujhed, was assassinated by gunmen while visiting Baghdad on Saturday, according to an Interior Ministry official, who asked not to be identified since he was not authorized to talk to the press.

Hours earlier, they attended a memorial service for a brigadier general whose jeep, also carrying an Israeli journalist, was blown up on a convoy into southern Lebanon exactly a year ago.