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Simple sentences
The two generals met again the next day.
American generals believed they could win an easy victory.
In general, generals run faster than soldiers.
Movie subtitles
The generals' headquarters.
Volunteers for the future generals' staff.
Yeah, generals too.
And on the big day. you should take all the kings and their cabinets and their generals. put them in the centre dressed in their underpants. and let 'em fight it out with clubs.
Come on, guys. Why should we mind the generals?
Where are the two generals you sent to bring her?
Oh, how different from your generals.
You, get my 10 generals and send them to me at once.
Yes, and get chairs, chairs for my generals!
The legions will assemble under my generals in the square.
Where are my generals?
Now they're Octavian's generals, and you are alone.
All my generals, all my legions, all the Egyptians.
Those generals plunged us recklessly into a war for which we were unprepared.
Ten governor-generals in 6 years!
Our generals have captured Constantine.
Winning is all our generals want.
Perhaps, but it's your generals who lay down the law.
The people follow blindly the generals who lead them to destruction.
Only generals have tunics like this.
They pay homage to the generals, showering them with thousands of white veils that signify purity and earthly fortune.
We eat like generals here.
Yeah, he eats like ten generals.
A couple of generals?
Hope what those generals had to say was important. -So long, Doc.
I know that in this office there have the same propositions to various Italian generals, the Bradoglianos, as you call them, who have given their lives for their silence, and I will not betray them.
It's those hoodlums again. those thieves and crooks and murderers, those toy soldiers. those dummy generals with their books and charts and maps and pointers!
How many other generals can boast the favor and support of a leader. so gifted in the arts of war?
Give me the names of Badoglio's generals.
I adore generals. They come right to the point.
It's a fine old custom to reward victorious generals and no one deserves it more than you.
He was a cavalry coronel. He could have made a career in the war. Those from his rank are now Generals, but he died just when he was starting.
Ah, perfect antidote for snakebite, thunder, lightning, and disbelieving generals.
Generals do it.
I knew a few officers that were somehow smarter than generals.
For the generals?
The generals are on top again, they got all the power.
Kudinov or the generals, we'll drive them out and put you in their place.
News and current affairs
Generals Atanase Stanculescu and Mihai Chitac were found guilty of ordering the killings of dozens of innocent people in Timisoara in 1989.
Generals ordered to use chemical weapons would have to reckon with the prospect that the regime could, actually, fall, and that they then might find themselves on trial for war crimes.
India's strategic rivals, China and Pakistan, began to court the Burmese generals.
When Pakistan's President, Pervez Musharraf traveled to Myanmar to celebrate his country's new relationship with his fellow generals, India's Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh soon followed.
And India sweetened the generals' tea by providing military assistance and intelligence support to their own never-ending counter-insurgencies.
The international community must judge Burma's generals by their actions, not their words and promises.
The pressure on Burma's generals must also be bilateral and multilateral - and should be reinforced by carefully calibrated economic measures, including targeted financial and banking sanctions.
Bush has long claimed that the number of troops in Iraq was a military decision and that he simply followed the advice of his generals, but now this is clearly not the case.
Another development is the increasing tendency of military generals to speak out of turn on strategic issues and undercut diplomatic strategy.
In fact, the Chechen war would not have lasted as long as it has if it weren't for corrupt generals, officers, clerks, and policemen who sell weapons and supplies to the rebels.
But Sharon's fellow generals were furious at him, as was often the case.
Although Egypt's generals are by no means as threatened as their Algerian counterparts were in December 1991, they do have enough power to flip the tables.
But the SCAF leadership shows no inclination to emulate the Spanish generals.
Otherwise, Egypt's generals will not be returning to their barracks anytime soon.
Because Burma's generals say almost nothing in public, it is difficult to fathom why they allowed elections that elevated Thein Sein to power, or to explain their willingness to embrace dialogue with the long-suppressed opposition.
The young leaders who created Facebook and Google have had a greater global impact than many statesmen and generals.
If they succeed, the Arab world may finally have an alternative to rule by generals or mullahs.
NEW YORK - The recent decision by Myanmar's government to sentence pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to a further 18 months' house arrest shows how difficult it is to deal with that country's ruling generals.
As a result, Myanmar's generals have been able to play one side off against another.
While ASEAN rejected previous calls to impose sanctions, or even to expel Myanmar, this step shows that it will not remain inert regardless of what the generals do.
Might it be possible that the generals in Myanmar recognize that they are in a cul de sac?
How the generals respond to the ASEAN request will be an important signal of the regime's intentions.
I met many retired army generals occupying key posts.
Myanmar's generals deserve to be condemned for their brutal crackdown on civilian protestors and Buddhist monks.
Imagine the impact if as many Myanmar generals visited America as Pakistani generals do.
And the generals began providing safe havens and arms to a motley assortment of anti-Indian rebel movements that would wreak havoc in India's northeastern states and retreat to sanctuaries in the newly-renamed Myanmar.
As the only international actor in direct dialogue with both Burma's generals and Suu Kyi, the UN is in a position to press for a genuine process of national reconciliation.
Given the Burmese generals' hard line stance to date, it will likely prove to be necessary for Ban to go to Burma to meet face-to-face with its leaders.
While the world watches, Burma's generals are consolidating their tyrannical rule as hundreds of thousands of the cyclone's survivors remain in desperate need of shelter, clean drinking water and medical care.