I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
I went to a general store. They wouldn't let me buy anything specifically.
A host is like a general: calamities often reveal his genius.
Diversified interests must exist in every community, and that system which is best calculated to promote the general interest is the one which should be adopted and adhered to with fidelity.
I have a fond appreciation for the Canadian culture and the Canadian food scene in general.
In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.
I met Gerald Ford. I met Richard Nixon. I met Jimmy Carter. I met Dwight Eisenhower when he was a general. George Bush senior. I haven't met Bill Clinton or George W. Bush, although I got a letter from him.
It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general.
The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.
Centrist voters typically decide general elections, so hard-left or hard-right platforms don't help.
Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts.
Using the commons as a cesspool does not harm the general public under frontier conditions, because there is no public, the same behavior in a metropolis is unbearable.
The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.
My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.
The early reviews of Dick Cheney's memoir have not evaluated the book, but instead have used its publication as an occasion for attacks on Cheney and his record, with general assaults on George W. Bush's administration thrown in for good measure.
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette.
I'd say in general, my style is Johnny Weir style. It's my style. I can't classify it as anything else.
