Sentence examples for opposing general from inspiring English sources

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Fans may think the Knicks are going nowhere, analysts may disparage their roster, opposing general managers may thank the heavens the Knicks are not theirs to fix, but James L. Dolan loves his team.

The myths we embrace in order to fight a war are unchanged from when David Hume wrote about them in 1740: the enemy is cruel and perfidious while we are equitable; the opposing general is a sorcerer who takes pleasure in death while the treachery of our generals we call policy; our cruelty we justify as an evil inseparable from war.

An opposing general for the Hungarians, Wesselényi, responded in kind, by flaying alive Imperial troops, and fixing sharp iron hooks in fortress walls, upon which he threw captured Germans to be impaled.

He fought for the enslavement of a people against our national army fighting for their freedom; killed more Americans than any opposing general in history; made no attempt to defend or protect this city; and even more absurdly, he never even set foot in Louisiana.

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Andrew Shore and Dwayne Croft star as the opposing generals, and Dennis Russell Davies, Mr. Glass's most experienced interpreter, conducts.

The book takes the reader back to that age, summarising the causes of the Civil War, looking at past and present Arundel and introducing the main characters of the Arundel Campaign - among them two former friends and now opposing Generals: Sir Ralph Hopton, ardent royalist, and Sir William Waller, the committed parliamentarian.

McGowan uses the site visit to point out the different leadership styles of the opposing generals.

Elements of the Navy as well as President Reagan's defense secretary, Caspar W. Weinberger, opposed General Jones's ideas, contending that the system long in place was satisfactory.

"How can the nation trust him?" Opposition parties have repeatedly said they will oppose General Musharraf's running for president while still in uniform.

When he was asked late in life what he had done to oppose General Franco, he didn't hesitate to reply: "Free and radical things".

Opposition lawyers, who have opposed General Musharraf's eight years of military rule on constitutional grounds, and all the main opposition parties are supporting the legal challenges.

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