How To Use Brigadier In A Sentence
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Not long after he was seconded to the Royal Air Force as a liaison officer, he claimed he had annoyed the Brigadier.
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She had ambition; she didn't intend to end her career as a brigadier in Hollands Midden.
THE LAST TEMPTATION
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The brigadier was a thick-set, soldierly looking man, fit as a fiddle in spite of the grey hairs which mingled with his brown moustache, and his eyes lit up as he saw his two sons still safe and well.
With Haig on the Somme
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Snor Vermeulen and Lionel Snyman of Vlakplaas, Nieuwoudt and a third man who "appeared to be a senior officer" and who Nieuwoudt later identified as divisional commander Brigadier Fanie Gilbert.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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The Defense Department announced on Friday that the President has formally nominated three colonels for promotion to Brigadier General.
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The brigadier said it was a good opportunity for the kids to have a break from their normal everyday environment.
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He rendered valuable service to his country, and had he lived, would probably have been recommended by me before this time for a brigadier generalcy.
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The brigadier is a capital fellow; and though he does keep us hard at work, at any rate he works hard himself, and does not send us galloping about with all sorts of trivial messages that might as well be unsent.
With Moore at Corunna
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He shall come, sidesmen accostant, by aryan jubilarian and on brigadier-general Nolan or and buccaneer-admiral Browne, with — who can doubt it? — his golden beagles and his white elkox terriers for a hunting on our littlego illcome faxes.
Finnegans Wake
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Well, and afterwards, up to her death, indeed, he lived with her, and they do say she led him a pretty dance — the brigadier, that is; sent him on foot from Moscow into the country — by God, she did — to get her rents in, I suppose.
A Desperate Character
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Indeed, there is much to be learnt from the Brigadier in terms of drifting and baits and chum.
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They were put up for brigadier generalcies and he was rewarded with governorship of Sonora.
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Brigadier (General Pagan) had visited and approved the dispositions, an order from Corps was received to retreat a mile and to dig trenches across the open, hedgeless fields which stretched between Robecq and
The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
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Brigadier General Edward Johnson held the crest of the Allegheny Mountains with a small contingent and had beaten off one attack with so much success that he had received the nom de guerre "Allegheny" Johnson.
LEE’S LIEUTENANTS
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The presence of McDonald - the so-called brigadier of the South Belfast wing of the loyalist paramilitary group - and other loyalist leaders is considered to be a significant step in building relations with republican and nationalist communities.
Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed
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Brigadier Melville Jameson, the chief executive and producer of the tattoo, said a condition of the appearance in Sydney was that a replica castle facade was built.
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She was a Brigadier's daughter, and often made com ments which were meant perhaps to rile Ida.
THE GOLDEN LION
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The Sixth Corps was commanded by Major-G.neral Horatio G. Wright; its three divisions by Brigadier -
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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The Brigadier, perhaps the canniest if not the brightest of the lot, had the beginnings of a smile on his lips.
CORMORANT
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Its transformation since then has been led by Rafi Harlev, a retired air-force brigadier.
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The Brigadier requests your presence.
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The brigadier tried to stem the flow with a tourniquet.
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Brigadier-General Dan Harel, commander of the Artillery Corps, was appointed head of an army board of inquiry.
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The second was the brigadier from the garage with a list of the cars assigned to the drivers.
The Happy Foreigner
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An officer of the 3rd Cavalry, Bourke was Brigadier General George Crook's aide-de-camp for 14 years, serving in every major campaign in Arizona and the Northern Plains.
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He saw a lot of action in his rise to a brigadier generalcy during World War I, but perhaps the toughest fight of his career occurred when he was a second lieutenant and was a sparing partner for James ‘Gentleman Jim’ Corbett, who was preparing for his famous heavyweight title match with John L. Sullivan in 1892.
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Well, and afterwards, up to her death, indeed, he lived with her, and they do say she led him a pretty dance -- the brigadier, that is; sent him on foot from Moscow into the country -- by
A Desperate Character and Other Stories
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He pursued a military career and attained the rank of Brigadier.
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The description was wholeheartedly endorsed by veterans who served under the Brigadier.
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She was a Brigadier's daughter, and often made com ments which were meant perhaps to rile Ida.
THE GOLDEN LION
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Promoted to the brevet rank of brigadier general, his division was prominent in the last stages of the war.
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Brigadier-General Dan Harel, commander of the Artillery Corps, was appointed head of an army board of inquiry.
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The brigadier was a regular soldier and nothing but a soldier from head to foot, in thought, in manner and in his decisive phrases.
My Second Year of the War
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This confirmed him; and soon after I recommended him for a brigadier-generalcy in the regular army, and it was given to him for this victory.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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Somehow tying the format down to Earth, with the threesome of Brigadier, Liz and Doctor, must have prevented the writer (s) from turning in naff space opera tales.
June Books 13) Doctor Who Annual 1971
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There is an amusing scene in Anthony Powell's roman-fleuve, A Dance to the Music of Time, in which a brigadier demands of a very junior officer what he thinks of Trollope.
Living with Trollope
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But no; the brigadier's servant and the mess-waiter, who was a high-spirited and intelligent dragoon, sought to vary the _ennui_ of the march, and to assert their superiority over the Kaffirs in the matter of stage-driving, by taking the _fourgon_ and its half broken team full gallop down the incline terminating in Houwater _vlei_.
On the Heels of De Wet
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And they hit it off right away, as much as a four-star general and a brigadier general hit it off.
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His father is a faceless figure: a retired brigadier, reserved and taciturn.
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Still, the brigadier thought they had potential under the right leadership, as redcoat privates were notorious for being the same sort of material.
George Washington’s First War
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The Pakistani army has detained a brigadier at army headquarters in Rawalpindi for alleged links with a banned Islamic hard-line group, Hizb ut-Tahrir.
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The brigadier was cashiered for his big mistake.
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In the course of the war, he had been brevetted up to brigadier-general.
CHASING the WHITE DOG
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The military world is agog to see which retired, or soon-to-retire, general, brigadier or colonel lands what's seen as one of the highest-profile jobs for which senior soldiers can apply.
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The Queen paused at the Black Watch regimental plot and spoke to Brigadier Donald Wilson and regimental secretary Joe Hubble.
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He had several times been recommended for a brigadier-generalcy for gallant and meritorious conduct.
Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals
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And Judge Harbottle, in what was then called a brigadier-wig, with his red roquelaure on, helped the glowing effect of the darkened chamber, which looked red all over like a room on fire.
Green Tea; Mr. Justice Harbottle
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Enlisting in the First Arkansas Regiment as a private soldier, and serving for twelve months as orderly sergeant; at the reorganization he was elected colonel of the regiment, and afterwards, on account of merit and ability, was commissioned brigadier-general; distinguishing himself for conspicuous bravery and gallantry on every battlefield, and being "scalped" by a minnie ball at Richmond, Kentucky -- which scar marks its furrow on top of his head today.
"Co. Aytch" Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment or, A Side Show of the Big Show
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By 1921, Conner was a 47-year-old brigadier general preparing for his first command of an infantry brigade.
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The main feeling in British military circles is that Brigadier David Richards' paratroopers and Gurkha riflemen will be in Sierra Leone ‘for as long as it takes’.
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The brigadier general, a polite little man who has lectured at the staff college for twenty years and who knows the last word in the science of warfare, especially of artillery, called the howitzer battery by telephone.
Kelly Miller's History of the World War for Human Rights
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His latest promotion comes just weeks after he was elevated to the rank of Brigadier General.
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Other extremist rabbis voiced the same sentiment, and, under Brigadier General Avichai Ronzki's command, the IDF's rabbinate theologized military missions and fed messianic dogma to young minds.
Religious Fundamentalism in Israel
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I called the JCS on the secure telephone and spoke with the Army brigadier general who was the duty flag officer.
Klusmann, Charles F.
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He was promoted successively to brigadier general and major general.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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There had been speculation that senior ranks - brigadier and above - would face similar cutbacks.
Times, Sunday Times
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A brigadier general said the same thing in quite different words when he called Cochise “the very worst Indian on the continent.”
Once They Moved Like the Wind
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A few days later, a pompous brigadier turned up and criticised Churchill for leaving a gap in his defences.
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The officer in charge of the picket, suddenly remembering that Major Burrage, of the Thirty-sixth Massachusetts, was taken prisoner some time since by the enemy while on a similar errand, 'gobbled' the rebel, who proved to be the famous Roger A. Pryor, ex-member of Congress and ex-brigadier-general of
My day : reminiscences of a long life,
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He shall come, sidesmen accostant, by aryan jubilarian and on brigadier-general Nolan or and buccaneer-admiral Browne, with — who can doubt it? — his golden beagles and his white elkox terriers for a hunting on our littlego illcome faxes.
Finnegans Wake
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Born the eldest son of an army brigadier, he says his family was obsessed with appearances, struggling to seem better off than they were.
Times, Sunday Times
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Colonel is the military rank between lieutenant - colonel and brigadier.
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He fought for, and befriended, Grant, and was a brevetted brigadier general by the close of the war.
CHASING the WHITE DOG
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Protests: Both Conservatives and Liberals Are Right … Just Looking at Different Sides of the Same Coin brigadier gerard - 10/9/11 10:34pm While attention is being focused on the upcoming G20 meeting as the place where a definitive solution must be advanced, it is increasingly clear there are no longer any "economic" measures available.
Crooks and Liars
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On the platform of the "gare" our gallant Division Commander, Brigadier General Baarth, attended by his staff, who had come on ahead of us by way of Paris, greeted us warmly and reviewed the troops.
The Greater Love
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The senior officers - generals, brigadiers, colonels - were all at a loss about what to do.
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The Brigadier has an appointment for dinner in a restaurant in the town that we passed through yesterday.
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At the breaking out of the war he immediately tendered his services to the Government, and soon rose to the colonelcy of the Thirty-Third Ohio Volunteers, and afterward to the rank of brigadier-general.
She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories
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One morning our door swung open, and the room was suddenly filled with a brigadier, two majors, and our own commanding officer.
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The senior officers - generals, brigadiers, colonels - were all at a loss about what to do.
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Promoted to brigadier general in 1907, he then became commandant of the Staff College.
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Upon the left, Brigadier Wilson, with Her Majesty's 53rd and the 30th Native Infantry equalled in celerity and regularity their comrades on the right; and this brigade was opposed to the 'Aieen' troops, called Avitabile's, when the fight was fiercely raging.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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He's a retired brigadier and one of Ivor's rivals where Stuart coins are concerned.
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Brigadier General Murdah Dulaimy told Iraqi TV that his men were sent to Anbar province to keep order and will clamp down according to the army's security plan.
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He was later promoted brigadier, and made a deputy director of military intelligence.
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I am a brigadier in command of the brigade of King Ian's army that defends this territory.
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The senior officers - generals, brigadiers, colonels - were all at a loss about what to do.
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Its transformation since then has been led by Rafi Harlev, a retired air-force brigadier.
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It was a letter signed by a brigadier and a major of the Sudanese Army.
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I AM an army brigadier in my last few weeks of service.
Times, Sunday Times
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He asks Brigadier General Paul Tibbets, who dropped the atom bomb on Hiroshima, how he feels when people say ‘Let's nuke 'em’.
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Or, “brigadier or captain,” lit. taxiarch or lochagos.
Memorabilia
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We sat with a picnic basket on a green sward and my former employer looked even more like a brigadier in his bulky battledress.
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He was an imposing figure, a cross between Humpty Dumpty and a brigadier, who had rowed hard in his youth.
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He is the Brigadier Block of blessed memory, the man with a negative backlift and a top hand merely as a place to park his left glove while mucking out.
Battling and brave: Paul Collingwood retires from Test cricket
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When he didn't make brigadier, he was "rifted" (for "reduction in force": the army's way of con'trolling its reserve-officer-corps population).
Chickenhawk
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A youngster during the Revolution, family string-pulling made him a captain in the French army by 20 and brigadier-general four years later.
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The regiment was then marching to Fort Laramie to resupply before joining Brigadier General George Crook's Big Horn and Yellowstone Expedition in northern Wyoming.
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Normally, a colonel would command a brigade, but TRISSOC is an elite service, and only brigadier generals are allowed to command brigades, with colonels as second-in-commands.
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Colonel is the military rank between lieutenant - colonel and brigadier.
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The Brigadier and the Captain sank their cavalry boots deep into the clay soil and began looking about.
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Defense Minister Brigadier General Ahmad Vahidi said Iran would teach Israel a lesson, if the company is trying to attack the Islamic republic.
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The town represents the birthplace and final resting place of the the regiment's founder, Brigadier Luke Lillingston.
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He was promoted successively to brigadier general and major general.
DOVES OF WAR: Four Women of Spain
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Two processional routes will tour the city, one beginning at the Brigadier Gerard in Monkgate, another at The Golden Ball, in Cromwell Road, at 2.30 pm.
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The Commander of the China Air Task Force, Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault, seen in his headquarters at Kunming, China.
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Brigadier Monro's staff of 600 Army personnel and 200 civilians will help to turn raw recruits into trained soldiers.
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In 1915, Brigadier General Abbot reviewed the Bradford City Volunteers.
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The brigadier and I managed to escape, and after that we just retreated and retreated.
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From Chicago, we are joined now by retired Brigadier General David Grange, who during his 30-year military career, served as a ranger and a green beret.
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The brigadier tried to stem the flow with a tourniquet.
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Freda Metcalfe and Roz Kerr targeted the big scores for division one champions Brigadier as Ox found them too hot to handle.
