major general
Example Sentences
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Nigeria's counter-terrorism boss Major General Adamu Garba said recently that illegal mining "intersects with banditry, insurgency, arms trafficking and cross-border smuggling".
From Barron's
Guest: Steven J. Lepper, retired Air Force major general and former deputy legal counsel to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
From Slate
Mr. Ryan, a retired major general in the Australian army, is a senior military fellow at the Lowy Institute.
As a former judge advocate in the Coast Guard and a retired Air Force major general who served as deputy legal counsel to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and deputy judge advocate general of the Air Force, we offer some perspective on how members of the military can and should respond to such orders.
From Slate
Their father, Philip, was a major general in the Continental Army, and their mother, Catharine, was a Van Rensselaer, another prominent Dutch lineage.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
