How to Use top brass in a Sentence

top brass

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  • But some officials felt his message was out of line, and the email soon leaked to the press, a bad look for top brass.
    — Blake Nelson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 June 2023
  • Even the top brass at RCA didn’t know the former would become a success story.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Not all of Devon’s top brass have been so reticent to declare their side in the ESG war.
    — Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The gap between the lifestyles of the average Vietnamese and those of the party’s top brass is a touchy subject.
    — Heather Chen, CNN, 12 Apr. 2024
  • This is your opportunity to rise in the ranks and get the top brass to see you and perhaps even get a promotion.
    — Stephanie Sengwe, Peoplemag, 28 June 2024
  • To be sure, generals are now daring to complain more openly about the top brass.
    — Tatiana Stanovaya, Foreign Affairs, 8 Aug. 2023
  • Even top brass from the New York Police Department took issue.
    — Nicholas Fandos, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Hamas also is using Telegram as a megaphone for its top brass.
    — Elizabeth Dwoskin, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Ensure the stabilization the top brass at each district.
    — Baltimore Sun Media, Baltimore Sun, 11 Apr. 2024
  • The Navy’s top brass talks frequently about the need to innovate to address the threat presented by China.
    — Eric Lipton, New York Times, 4 Sep. 2023
  • And, for that matter, how desperate for money the league’s top brass really is.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 11 Aug. 2023
  • According to the report, top brass agreed to close the investigation in May 2021, and Chief Michel Moore agreed a month later.
    — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • Becker wasn't the only member of SVB's top brass to sell company common stocks.
    — Ali Dukakis, ABC News, 17 Mar. 2023
  • The firm also issued roughly $300 million in performance share units to top brass.
    — Dawn Lim, Fortune, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The tour featured more engagements with press, all adjustments his campaign's top brass laid out to donors last weekend.
    — Aaron Navarro, CBS News, 28 July 2023
  • Still, O’Leary’s comments stand in sharp contrast to his previous scathing criticism of Boeing’s top brass.
    — Hanna Ziady, CNN, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Then, this week, the top brass in Gabon unseated the country’s long-ruling President Ali Bongo in the wake of a controversial election.
    — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2023
  • Xi and Putin have met more than 63 times overall and their respective top brass have high-level consultations every two weeks or so.
    — Charlie Campbell, TIME, 17 May 2024
  • Sheppard also said Chell’s comments, like others by top brass, are run through his office before they are posted.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Neill said Li’s removal could mean that the U.S. may now finally end up having direct dialogue with the top brass of the Chinese military itself.
    — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 24 Oct. 2023
  • In the first week, fifteen thousand people submitted petitions—and this goes straight to the top brass at the Department of Education.
    — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 24 Sep. 2023
  • The shine wears off At its annual investors' day on Tuesday, the top brass at Goldman Sachs took to the stage in succession to assure investors that the bank could guarantee profits for years ahead.
    — Byeamon Barrett, Fortune, 3 Mar. 2023
  • Generations of Vietnam’s top brass trained in the Soviet Union and later Russia.
    — Hannah Beech, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Prigozhin spent his last days touring African countries, an apparent effort to prevent Russia’s top brass from co-opting that part of his business.
    — Mary Ilyushina, Francesca Ebel, Rachel Chason and Claire Parker, The Washington Post, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023
  • Nearly four years after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, the department has cleaned the house of its top brass.
    — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 15 May 2024
  • The only one sporting a military uniform at that meeting was Zolotov, who has since become the most outspoken of Russia’s top brass.
    — Simon Shuster, Time, 27 June 2023
  • But the top brass likely collected their million-dollar bonuses.
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2024
  • Yet the panic was evident from the party’s top brass down to rank-and-file members, many of whom were speculating about whether Biden might give up the nomination as soon as today.
    — Philip Elliott, TIME, 3 July 2024
  • That type of deceit involved beat cops (and top brass) taking bribes, more than ever during Prohibition, from the gambling and liquor gangsters downtown.
    — Samuel G. Freedman, The New Republic, 21 June 2023
  • Shifting the top brass far from Boeing’s biggest business, and the one that’s suffered the severest problems, was a huge mistake in the opinion of several of Boeing suppliers and clients Fortune spoke to.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 22 Feb. 2024

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