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He was a great general and statesman.
In general, everything is fine.
Aggressive drivers who tailgate are a danger to the general public. Tailgating is basically a kind of road rage.
With the heirless king going crazy and royal family poisoned, the general of the army finally had his chance to usurp the throne.
In general, little is known about nonlinear second order differential equations.
I like Chinese food in general.
In general, communication between doctors and their patients is the most important part of medical treatment.
Is it a general custom in your country?
The Party won a sweeping victory at the general election.
The theory will find general acceptance.
The high-ranking government official ruled out the possibility of a general election.
This book is suitable for general readers.
They say there will be a general election this fall.
Americans, in general, don't like to dress up.
Would you please put me in touch with the General Manager of Overseas Sales of AB Software Ltd?
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the cease-fire resolution.
Short-term effects of smoking include unfitness, wheezing, a general vulnerability to illness, bad breath, bad skin and so on.
Foreigners in general don't need as many compliments as Japanese are required to give each other, and it is good to keep this in mind.
In general, Japanese are hardworking.
In general, young people dislike formality.
In general, it may be said that he is a genius in music.
London developed into the general market of Europe.
The Doppler effect is also observed with light and with radiant energy in general.
The general lived the rest of his life peacefully after his retirement.
The general strike paralyzed the whole country.
Movie subtitles
While we are here, call me Governor-General, Vice-Governor Euphemia.
What? This is your tariff. to the general!
The, the general?
The general is mutilating girls in the next village over!
My name is General Koni, leader of the NRA Rebellion and protector!
And you are no general.
The general is going to come back, and if he sees us here, we are all dead!
This is all very interesting, but the general said that it is because our women aren't circumcised that God has brought this wrath upon us!
I know I'm doing a really good job and all, but let's not get too carried away, I mean, a lot of the people here are so scared to death of that General Koni guy.
Everywhere we go, people keep talking about General Koni, and how he'll kill them.
Sometime I'd like to convince that general that what he's doing is wrong.
We have a general idea of what conditions are crucial for life to thrive on a planet.
Yeah, curator, wrangler, the photographer, chief bottle washer, general dogs' body.
I'm afraid I have to report the incident to the General Nursing Council and the Central Midwives Board.
General!
The wife of the general in Constantine is Arab.
You're very optimistic, General.
Bugeaud was named governor-general.
You're right, General.
Thank you, General.
We're stealing the Arabs' land, General.
He wasn't there, General.
Forgive me, General, but I refuse to continue to debate with someone who compares our troops to Cossacks!
To think they're considering him for the secretary general position in Algiers.
General Fleury offered me an assignment in Algiers.
General Randon asked me to come see him.
You're a retired officer, aren't you? - I am, General.
He's a Republican, General.
The team that grabbed the general's daughter.
General Skobeleff.
It was a general belief that the witch was naked when, at night, during the so-called Witch Sabbath, she danced with the devils.
Three different negatives were created for the film Der letzte Mann. One of them was for Germany, one for general export, and the third for the US A.
General Director Rosenow.
Anything you say, General.
Would somebody get General Ludendorff a nice, comfortable chair?
No, the general's staff's been over this country with a rake.
General, all the lines to the tunnel are shot to pieces.
At your orders, General!
Will you make my excuses to General Carew and Muriel, please?
Lanyon, you make my excuses to the General. and I'll make mine to Muriel myself.
Hello, General.
News and current affairs
In 2004, General Viktor Cherkesov, then Putin's representative in northwest Russia, published an essay that glorified the KGB as the only unspoiled authority in a corrupted country.
Like former Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, the only other KGB man to rule Russia, Putin will become the party's general secretary.
As in the Soviet era, state and governmental officials will be reduced to party ciphers - the role that President Medvedev will play under General Secretary Putin.
And, of course, being General Secretary carries no constitutional term limit.
Still, the general principle seems like an important step towards fiscal sanity.
It would remove two major sources of corruption and inefficiency: the customs service and the misuse of public funds in general.
It was NATO's job to ensure the country's stability and security, and thus NATO's weak General Secretary and the European allies, especially Germany and France, share the responsibility for the worsening situation.
His re-election to a second term as UN Secretary General was supported by nations all over the world, rich and poor, as well as by UN employees.
The story of General Stanculescu, sentenced to 15 years in prison, reads like a cheap novel, with treason thrown into the mix.
As the uprising against the Ceausescu regime broke out in December 1989 in Timisoara, Stanculescu (together with General Chitac) was dispatched to the city and ordered to suppress all demonstrations by any available means.
A few months later, he supported a group of young officers who called for army reform and the ouster of General Militaru, the then Defense Minister and a suspected KGB agent.
General Stanculescu has appealed to the Supreme Court to quash his conviction.
In the wake of the Stanculescu conviction, the Interior Minister reiterated his proposal for a general amnesty for all soldiers involved in the violence of 1989.
To help create this future, I am focusing my second term as Secretary-General on five global imperatives - five generational opportunities to shape the world of tomorrow by the decisions we make today.
During 2002-2006, I led the United Nations Millennium Project, which aimed to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, for then-UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
It can strengthen the EU's legitimacy, though, only if policy recommendations such as these, and the successes that result from implementing them, are communicated clearly and effectively to the general public.
While Thein Sein would undoubtedly wish to see the myriad economic and political sanctions imposed on Burma quickly lifted, it is too soon for a general easing of such measures.
Quite apart from their concerns about the robustness of the rebound in the economy, investors are uncertain about many financial firms' business models, and about the future size, shape, and profitability of the financial sector in general.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is taking on this unprecedented challenge from his unique position at the crossroads of global politics and society.
The Secretary General's launch of the Sustainable Development Solutions Network is therefore especially timely.
An internal review panel studying what went wrong in the UN system's response to Sri Lanka, commissioned by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and headed by the distinguished diplomat Charles Petrie, is due to report to Ban next month.