Sentence examples for has become general from inspiring English sources

In Baghdad, Mr. Rumsfeld's first stop was the Abu Ghraib Palace, which has become General McKiernan's headquarters.

But this sort of thing has become general practice, as I discovered recently at my local NatWest bank where I have been a customer for about 30 years.

"A governmental practice that has become general throughout the United States, and particularly one that has the validation of long, accepted usage, bears a strong presumption of con- stitutionality". McIntyre, supra, at 375 ( Scalia, J., dissenting).

They had offended the government by disregarding "unofficial" warnings not to transmit live coverage of the rallies of the ousted chief justice of Pakistan, Iftikhar Chaudhry, who in recent months has become General Musharraf's nemesis.

It shows that the dread and opposition to it has become general at a social level which might remain comparatively unaffected in England, in spite of a perfect unanimity amongst the electoral classes here.

It is only a few years ago that Miss Hosmer used to swagger with pistols in her belt, but it is not likely that the practice has become general with ladies.

Stalin, who had become general secretary of the party in 1922, used the party as a power base.

By 1960 he had become general manager of the Ford division and a vice president of the company.

"Make no small plans," was the dictum of Fred Roche, who had become general manager of Milton Keynes Development Corporation in 1970.

Mr. Shulman served an early clerkship with the U.S. Supreme Court and by age 30 had become general counsel for the Air Force.

In 1898, he got a job with the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of N.Y., & has been in life-insurance ever since, having become general agent in 1907.