Sentence examples for the brigadier general from inspiring English sources

In the U.S. and French military services, the brigadier general is the lowest-ranking general officer.

The brigadier general and two of his colleagues were then detained for questioning, Dawn reported.

Near him lay the brigadier general who led the assault, Halbert E. Paine.

The Brigadier General who took responsibility for Abu Ghraib says the torture memos prove she was something of a scapegoat.

Janis Karpinski, the brigadier general who was the military police commander at Abu Ghraib, was reprimanded and demoted.

Both guards claimed that they had confessed after torture at the hands of the brigadier general in charge of Mr. Abdul Mahdi's battalion.

Montgomery was ranked 2nd in command of all the Brigadier Generals.

Both the brigadier-general and Al-Zamili said there will be an investigation into the incident.

Gates also approved a move to appoint Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Iraq and chief author of the Army's field manual on counterinsurgency, as the head of the brigadier-general promotion board this past fall.

One colonel, who asked not to be identified because he didn't want to risk his own ambitions, said: "Everyone studies the brigadier-general promotion list like tarot cards — who makes it, who doesn't.

The people -- powerful though they may be -- are free of the obvious trappings of power (except for the uniformed brigadier general at the head of the table).