Sentence examples for was a comrade from inspiring English sources

He was a comrade and a partner of mine in a historic endeavor of the city of Los Angeles.

You have asked - who am I, that I too did not falter, so that I too could turn my own eyes away from myself and another, who was a comrade.

A lawyer turned journalist, he was a comrade of Mahatma Gandhi in the earliest noncooperation movements for independence and was also president of the Indian National Congress (1934, 1939, and 1947).

Yet in that same lineup was another son – Thabo Mbeki – and he waited patiently for his father, Govan, to shake each hand in turn until he reached his son who, he was later to remark, was a comrade like any other.

He told me what lies behind the two main factions: "Operation Dignity is led by a retired General, (Khalifa) Haftar - he was a comrade of Gaddafi some 45 years ago when Gaddafi staged a coup, he was one of his partners, then they fell out.

Working mostly from abroad, Mbeki was a comrade of Robert Mugabe, who was engaged in a similar struggle in neighboring Rhodesia.

He was a comrade-in-arms of Leo the Armenian, who later became Emperor Leo V (813).

There has been persistent speculation that Mr Bo enjoyed close ties with military leaders (his late father, Bo Yibo, was a comrade-in-arms of Mao Zedong).In recent weeks numerous articles have appeared in the official media attacking the notion of placing the armed forces under the control of the state, rather than the party.

Mao's personal tyranny has yielded to a more collective leadership by the Politburo, but the system struggles to contain a 21st-century society.Mr Xi, whose father was a comrade-in-arms of Mao, enjoys more personal authority than his dull predecessor, Hu Jintao.

While riding the train into the Loop, my eyes scanned the seats and aisles for other travelers wearing educator red: any teacher in red was a comrade-in-arms, someone with which to share war stories of 95°F schoolrooms, kindergarten classes of 40 students, leaking roofs and crazed administrators.

The last one, Spencer Cox, was a comrade-in-arms from ACT UP.