Sentence examples for general reckoning from inspiring English sources

Like the two recently departed interior ministers, both men number among the 45-odd sons sired by King Abdul Aziz Al Saud, the founder and namesake of modern Saudi Arabia, who died in 1953.By general reckoning, none of the dwindling number of surviving brothers in their generation looks fit to be a future king.

But the fact remains that, by general reckoning, the Swedes, however good, are not top rank.

It was the general reckoning that Thalberg worked himself to death on behalf of the system.

No fewer than five of its leading players were born 100 years ago, in 1907: Edgar Anstey, Marion Grierson, Paul Rotha, Basil Wright and, by general reckoning the most prodigiously talented of the quintet, Humphrey Jennings, director of Listen to Britain, Fires Were Started and A Diary for Timothy - incomparably stirring and poetic evocations of the home front during the second world war.

The general reckons that clearing the militants from Swat, the main theatre of an army offensive launched early this month, may take three months.

KAMALESH SHARMA, the Commonwealth's secretary-general, reckons he has the "most spectacular office in London".

It need not be huge no fewer than 12,000, informed generals reckon, but no more than 20,000, with NATO allies providing about a third of the troops.

But there the parallels stop: since handing over power, General Banzer is generally reckoned to have worked, not selflessly, maybe, but diligently, in politics to re-establish and uphold democracy.His party, the ADN, has performed well in the six elections since the birth of a new parliamentary democracy in 1983.

But General Chen reckons China will not achieve full informatisation until well after that.

In general, they reckon, less diverse economies engage in more redistribution and greater provision of public goods such as education and infrastructure.

To maintain political support for his task, General McChrystal reckons he has a year to show serious progress a blink-of-an-eye in counter-insurgency time.