generalissimos

A deal was reached whereby the half-brothers and their uncle would share power, testimony to the clout of the generalissimos who would come to dominate Roman politics in the fifth century.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

So anxious were Bush and Cheney to be permanent wartime generalissimos, unfettered by Constitutional constraints, that just minutes before the measure went to the Senate for a vote, according to then Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, they sought to add the words "in the United States" after the phrase "appropriate force" in the language of the resolution.

Epicenter of Mendacity: Obama's Illegal War against Afghanistan 2009

And just about 20 years ago Africa was run by a series of home-grown strutting, pompous generalissimos and military juntas that continued to deform and warp the African landscape and to turn it into a violent bazaar.

Can Democracy Exist With Tribalism? 2008

Such double standards from a man who molly-coddles and dances with military dictators, petty generalissimos and other leaders whose record of human rights is as spotty as a Dalmatian was a test case in hypocrisy.

George Bush's Jaundiced World View 2007

As dead as jackbooted generalissimos, as passe as Colombian coffee's poster boy Juan Valdez and his mule.

Is Magical Realism Dead? 2007

It creates little generalissimos, swaggering little titans who have been convinced they are playing in the big leagues when they have neither the judgement, the maturity or the good grace to practice a better, more dignified, more productive sort of politics.

Attention Jason Cherniak ALW 2006

After a short interval, the two generalissimos reappeared.

Army Boys on German Soil Our Doughboys Quelling the Mobs Homer Randall

He could have borrowed money and gone back to Bristol, but there are many precedents for beaten generalissimos falling on their swords rather than return home defeated and disgraced.

The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton

Finally the future generalissimos, decided to enlist as simple volunteers ... but in a French regiment.

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. (Los Cuatro Jinetes del Apocalipsis) from the Spanish of Vincente Blasco Ibanez; authorized translation by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. 1918

+ Fung-ngen Tsiang-kiun, generalissimos of the first, second, third, and fourth clases respectively.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913