Examples of field marshal

• That formidable forty-four-page document included in its nine appendices a series of laboriously constructed age and rank tables for the entire regular officer corps from captain to field marshal.

• It should make up its own mind without the need of paid advertisements using the name of a great field marshal.

• I do not know what the comparison is between an ex-politician—or perhaps he is still a practising politician—and the field marshal.

• You do not have to be a field marshal to realise that that is not enough.

• I should have thought that it was very reasonable and proper for the field marshal to wear his uniform when going into the battle zone.

• That is not an academic; that is a field marshal.

• It would not matter if he was a field marshal or a police constable.

• When a field marshal is earning 10 times more than a private, that is right.