Example sentences for: secretary-general

How can you use “secretary-general” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Strong currently serves as an adviser to the U.N. secretary-general, an adviser to the World Bank president, and presided over the 1992 Earth Summit as its secretary-general.

  • Another big subject in the European press Thursday was the appointment of the British Defense Secretary George Robertson as the next secretary-general of NATO.

  • He is too attached to his organization, the first secretary-general to rise from inside its bureaucracy.

  • Its purpose , in the words of its first secretary-general, Lord Ismay, was "to keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down."

  • A U.N. secretary-general is a CEO, someone who needs to be independent enough to take the initiative but tractable enough to heed his board members (that is, the member states).


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