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158 examples of Brass in a sentence

The problem is that Woods can't convince the police brass of his suspicions, they don't want to alarm the public.
Combining the two takes brass balls, and Klaus Hoch has got him.
brass target is one of the best world war ii movies made.
There was one time in the movie where the Army's top brass retired to the briefing room.
If the story doesn't require major air or naval assets, a script disapproved of by the top brass can be convincingly brought to the screen.
Still, it's certainly a well-acted story of social change in a small town (despite the loathsome, stodgy music - I hate brass bands) and worth a look.
In meetings with judges, academics, journalists and civil leaders, the top brass pointed out that Turkish law calls on the army to protect the "secular state."
The school has a brass band, a farm, an artists’ collective, microfinance and literary clubs, and support groups for victims of domestic violence.
Former President Khatami, meanwhile, is reviled by the fundamentalists and the top brass of the Revolutionary Guards, who repeatedly obstructed his reform agenda during his presidency.
What made the Party’s top brass lose face – and sleep – was the failure of China’s famed “Great Firewall” during the Bo saga.
Of particular interest to Mueller is a meeting held in Trump Tower in June 2016, between the Trump campaign’s top brass and a Russian lawyer with close Kremlin ties, who had offered Donald Jr. some dirt on Hillary Clinton, a prospect that excited the candidate’s son.
But diplomats and military brass alike should be willing to take a step back when appropriate, condition their interactions, and make use of available leverage – even at the risk of a counterpart’s wrath.
The military brass act as they do for essentially the same reason.
This was not palatable to the Punjabi-dominated military brass or to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the leader of West Pakistan’s largest political party.
According to a press account, "the top military brass listened sympathetically," but when someone asked Rumsfeld for his opinion on soft power, he replied, "I don't know what it means."
The top brass did not want to look like they were “aiding the putschists.”
So far, however, the army has yet to intervene directly in the current unrest, suggesting that significant elements of the top military brass have condoned the agitation.
Eighteen of the thirty-eight top brass come from one party, the Jamiat-e-Islami, the Islamic faction that has long been led by mullah and former theology professor Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Unfortunately, only ten of the thirty-eight brass promoted by Fahim have backgrounds as professional military officers.
Being tasked with maintaining the territories Israel has occupied since the Six-Day War in 1967 evidently causes the military and security brass to support political measures that would end the occupation.
In numerous speeches and interviews, its top brass have insisted that QE is unnecessary and raises obvious inflation risks, only to see inflation undershoot the ECB’s target year after year.
'As happy and contented as a brass farthing,' he added, pausing to shake hands with an athletic, handsome chamberlain.
The iron roofs, the pavement flag-stones, the cobbles of the road, the wheels, the leather, brass, and tin of the carriages – all shone brightly in the May sunshine.
Living thus, without every leaving the warm atmosphere of the classrooms, and amid these pale-faced women wearing rosaries with brass crosses, she was softly lulled by the mystic languor exhaled in the perfumes of the altar, the freshness of the holy water, and the lights of the tapers.
From time to time the bell of a public house door rang, and when it was windy one could hear the little brass basins that served as signs for the hairdresser's shop creaking on their two rods.
Now and again, while he shot out a long squirt of brown saliva against the milestone, with his knee raised his instrument, whose hard straps tired his shoulder; and now, doleful and drawling, or gay and hurried, the music escaped from the box, droning through a curtain of pink taffeta under a brass claw in arabesque.
Berthe fell at the foot of the drawers against the brass handle, cutting her cheek, which began to bleed, against it.
And after presenting arms, during which the clang of the band, letting loose, rang out like a brass kettle rolling downstairs, all the guns were lowered.
But the springs of the right side having at length given way beneath the weight of his corpulence, it happened that the carriage as it rolled along leaned over a little, and on the other cushion near him could be seen a large box covered in red sheep-leather, whose three brass clasps shone grandly.
But three knocks were heard on the stage, a rolling of drums began, the brass instruments played some chords, and the curtain rising, discovered a country-scene.
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