Sentence examples for worst general from inspiring English sources

Despite this, the party suffered its worst general election defeat in a generation.

The Knicks' Scott Layden has proved once and for all that he is the N.B.A.'s worst general manager.

The result was the party's worst general election performance on record, but it still left them with the largest number of votes.

Senior broadcast journalists warned last night of a growing crisis for news broadcasters covering politics, after the worst general election turnout since 1918.

As such, the competent bodies of the state must take action to avert the worst," General João Maria de Sousa said.

A defeat would raise questions about the position of Miliband, who would have lost a seat held last May during the party's second worst general election result since 1918.

"Like the worst generals of the Vietnam era, he tended to descend into the weeds, where he was comfortable, ignoring the larger situation — which, after all, was his job," Ricks writes.

"Like the worst generals of the Vietnam era, he tended to descend into the weeds, where he was comfortable, ignoring the larger situation — which, after all, was his job,'' Ricks writes.

But after that, when the brighter, more discerning light of wartime and politics cast his troubling flaws into high relief -- when he proved to be one of the Union's worst generals and when he openly defied his presidential sponsor's orders against what Lincoln deemed premature emancipation of Missouri slaves -- his tumultuous public life began to be over.

3 Briefly, TOPICS-CEP is a preference-weighted index ranging from 0 (worst possible general wellbeing) to 10 (best possible general wellbeing).

Emily Eden was the sister of George Auckland, probably the worst governor general of the lot.