Sentence examples for general referred from inspiring English sources

The inspector general referred the matter to the national security division of the Justice Department for possible criminal action, but officials there declined to prosecute Mr. Gonzales.

In what seemed a veiled warning, the general referred to the crackdown of 1988 and said the popular uprising then showed the need to maintain law and order.

When the then attorney general referred the case against Tariq Aziz to Scotland Yard, I accused him of kicking the issue into the long grass.

In 1984, the state attorney general referred to the south wing as "the innermost circle of hell in the Maryland prison system".

At the time, James Comey, the deputy attorney general, referred the case to Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the United States attorney in Chicago.

The assistant state attorney general referred to Selig's position, before he was commissioner, as president and chief executive of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Latvians in general refer to mothers, Lithuanians to masters.

In English, "Quebecers" refers to all residents of Quebec, regardless of their principal language or lineage, and "Québécois," in general, refers to French-speaking inhabitants or natives of Quebec.

"Even if you are a valid Native American Church member, you still cannot use peyote legally unless you are a member of a federally recognized tribe," said Kris Leonard, an assistant Utah attorney general, referring to the federal law.

"Consumers are just beginning to see the benefits of competition between the D.B.S. services and cable in the pay TV market," said Mike Fisher, the Pennsylvania attorney general, referring to direct-broadcast satellite.

"There has been much more activity in the last few months than in all the years previous," said Richard Rifkin, a deputy state attorney general, referring to all the claims.