Example sentences of "chairman of [art] [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave used to be the Chairman of the Young Conservatives at thirty two , er , he was also a local councillor in nineteen seventy-five to nineteen seventy-eight in his home town of , erm , and he used to be Rotarian , for two years , he goes to raise money for charities . |
| 2 | Admiral Crowe was replaced as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Sunday by General Colin Powell . |
| 3 | General Colin Powell , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , said : ‘ The operation is not over yet . |
| 4 | On the second day of ‘ Operation Just Cause ’ the US still had no idea of the whereabouts of General Noriega , according to General Colin Powell , the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff . |
| 5 | Colin Powell , the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , put the matter most clearly ( which is getting to be a habit ) when he testified to Congress on February 19th . |
| 6 | The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff was also standing as the man behind the desk read the slip of paper he had just been handed . |
| 7 | He asked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if he should pull out the Ariadne which they knew , of course , was sitting over the crashed plane . |
| 8 | And after you 've sent your signal to Athens and I 've composed a suitably stirring message to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in Washington . ’ |
| 9 | In a fine speech that preceded the president 's , Colin Powell , the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff , said in essence that it was wrong for servicemen to hold back respect for their commander-in-chief simply because of what he did long ago . |
| 10 | Domkat Yah Bali , a Christian who was up till then considered to be the regime 's " number three " , had lost the Defence portfolio and the post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , and was removed from the Armed Forces Ruling Council ( AFRC ) . |
| 11 | Following the reshuffle , the President , the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , the Army and police chiefs , and the Ministers of External Affairs , Petroleum Resources , and Budget , were all northern Moslems . |
| 12 | Iftikhar Sirohey as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff would end in mid-August , but Khan blocked Sirohey 's retirement on the grounds that only he had the right to make such decisions . |
| 13 | Soon after 1 p.m. , as sporadic gunfire continued to be heard in the capital , Gen. Sani Abacha , the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Army Staff , declared that the Chiefs of Staff had pledged their loyalty to the President , and that " most of the disloyal elements have been arrested and are already undergoing interrogation " . |
| 14 | Emilio Osses Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . |
| 15 | Details from a confidential military strategy document for the 1990s , presented to Bush in late June by Defence Secretary Dick Cheney and Gen. Colin Powell , chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , were leaked to the New York Times on Aug. 2 . |
| 16 | It was announced on Feb. 5 that Bush was dispatching Defence Secretary Dick Cheney and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , Gen. Colin Powell , to Saudi Arabia to examine the situation . |
| 17 | The speculation that Quayle might be dropped in 1992 in favour of Gen. Colin Powell was further dampened when on May 23 Bush nominated Powell for a second two-year term as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . |
| 18 | Shameem Alam Khan was appointed to the largely ceremonial post of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . |
| 19 | At the same time , the Commander-in-Chief of the US Central Command , Gen. Joseph P. Hoar , held a series of separate meetings with Gen. Janjua , the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee , Gen. Shamim Alam Khan , and the Chief of Air Staff , Air Chief Marshal Faruq Feroze Khan . |
| 20 | US Senate armed services committee chairman Sam Nunn asked the Defence Department to conduct a further investigation , citing the statement in the ABC broadcast by Adml. ( retd ) William Crowe , former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff , that the Vincennes had been in Iranian waters when it fired the missile , not in international waters as previously claimed . |
| 21 | Luis Alberto Rodríguez Rodríguez replaced Gen. Farouk Yanine Díaz as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff . |
| 22 | Mr Clinton said on Wednesday he had instructed General Colin Powell , chairman of the joint chiefs of staff , to design an operation that would protect US pilots and guard against drawing America into a deeper military role in the region . |
| 23 | Angela Cartwright had been the chairman of the local Tories for the past two years . |
| 24 | Years later when I became chairman of the medical missions of SPG , I realised how in mission hospitals all over the world , the same devoted healing mission was being carried on , which spoke much more eloquently of divine and human love than the preaching of less qualified friends like myself . |