Sentence examples for general adviser from inspiring English sources

"My job was to be a general adviser to the President," Mondale told me.

"I believe the most important contribution I can make is to serve as a general adviser to you," Mondale wrote.

Mondale's principal insight was that a Vice-President could be more effective as a "general adviser" to the President than as someone who was given discrete tasks.

Al Gore studied this history, and his idea, according to the Senate Historical Office's study, was to be "a general adviser to the President, who took little direct responsibility over specific programs".

During the first years of World War I, he headed the department of grain management (until July 1916), then served in the food ministry and, finally again, in the treasury department as general adviser on the war economy.

Ibn Ṭufayl also wrote a number of medical treatises in Arabic and served as the court physician and general adviser to the Almohad ruler Abū Yaʿqūb Yūsuf from 1163 to 1184.

In general, advisers suggested that Mr. Obama had prepared for a different Mitt Romney, one who had promoted a conservative message to the Republican base this year and chosen a running mate with a plan to cut deeply into government spending.

If the idea of getting rid of experienced advisers only to replace them with wholly deferential general advisers (who will be inexperienced and thus more likely to kowtow to the DWP) wasn't so serious for so many people, it would almost be funny.

Gordana Rashovich is more successful as Dr. Wu, the general's adviser, sporting sinister laughs and fingernails.

Last week, to back that up, the State Department revoked the visa of a retired Guatemalan general and adviser to Mr. Portillo who is suspected of drug trafficking.

A former top Iraqi general and adviser to Mr. Hussein is suspected of coordinating some of the attacks against American forces, a senior American defense official said on Wednesday.