Sentence examples for overall army from inspiring English sources

He became overall army commander in May 1992 and was replaced in mid-1993 and made army chief of staff.

Overall, army chief General Ashfaq Kayani won praise though for keeping the military out of politics (relative to the recent past at least).

Nonetheless, General Chiarelli said that he believed — but could not prove statistically — that the overall Army suicide rate had been driven up by the 21 percent of suicides committed by soldiers with multiple deployments.

But only a month after the Basra fighting ended, an open letter to British troops in Iraq from the country's overall army commander, Gen. Sir Richard Dannatt, acknowledged, at least implicitly, the frustration that the delay in entering the battle had caused among British troops.

While the rise in overall Army suicides — at least 128 soldiers killed themselves in 2008, the highest number in three decades — is widely seen as related to the stresses of the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the roots of the problem here are less clear.

The Obama administration is sending more troops to Afghanistan, increasing the military budget, and expanding the overall army.

But overall the army experience vested in him a hatred of the military that was to serve him well as a writer later on.

Rates of violence fell overall and the army chief, Raheel Sharif, was glorified as a national saviour.

But, overall, the Libyan army's tribal nature and allegiances prevent it from functioning as a single unit, either in backing Gaddafi, or in joining the revolt against him.

"We're actually putting £1.5bn in to make sure we recruit those territorials, and we have actually an army overall at 110,000 that's pretty much the same size as the one that we inherited.

Overall, the Iraqi army and the Kurds are doing the vast majority of the fighting.