How to Use secretary-general in a Sentence

secretary-general

noun

• The secretary-general’s spokesperson did not respond to queries about the claims of an anti-Israel bias at the U.N.
  — Peter Aitken, Fox News, 21 Nov. 2023
• Driving the news: Gore tells Axios the UN secretary-general should gain some power to choose which nations host the summits and who runs the talks.
  — Ben Geman, Axios, 24 Sep. 2024
• The final report will be made public once handed over to the secretary-general.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, Fox News, 11 Feb. 2024
• Countries will next vote to appoint a new secretary-general in 2026.
  — Abiodun Williams, The Conversation, 16 Jan. 2025
• Nasrallah took the role of Hezbollah’s secretary-general following the demise of his predecessor at the hands of the IDF over 30 years ago.
  — The Editors, National Review, 28 Sep. 2024
• Now, in an unusual move, the top official in one — the secretary-general of the United Nations — is pressing for major changes in the other two.
  — Edith M. Lederer, BostonGlobe.com, 17 June 2023
• One key problem is that while the secretary-general is the U.N.'s chief executive, power rests with the 193 member nations, which have very different ideas about the U.N. and the world.
  — Arkansas Online, 1 June 2025
• Gal Cohen, the secretary-general of Be’eri, has been advocating for residents to return; his goal is for between eighty and ninety per cent to do so by the end of 2026.
  — Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 6 Oct. 2024
• The doors opened to reveal Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah.
  — Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, 22 July 2024
• Hezbollah’s secretary-general, Sheikh Naim Qassem, has said that his party won’t give up its arms in the face of continued Israeli aggression.
  — Rania Abouzeid, New Yorker, 2 June 2025
• The secretary-general called for reaffirming the two-state solution.
  — Jon Haworth, ABC News, 5 Feb. 2025
• The secretary-general issues a challenge Guterres, clearly relieved at the outcome, then issued a challenge to the leaders: Implement the pact.
  — Edith M. Lederer, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2024
• In his speech, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres called on rich countries to lead the way to net zero, committing and working to reaching that target by 2040, a decade ahead of emerging economies.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 20 Mar. 2023
• Al-Sheikh, 64, is a veteran politician who has held a series of top positions over decades, most recently as the secretary-general of the PLO’s executive committee for the last three years.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
• An early test of the axis came in 1992, when Israel assassinated Abbas al-Musawi, who was the secretary-general of Hezbollah.
  — Renad Mansour, Foreign Affairs, 13 Nov. 2024
• António Guterres, secretary-general of the United Nations, said on the X platform after the agreement that his message to those who had opposed a clear reference to the phase out of fossil fuels was that the transition was inevitable.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 13 Dec. 2023
• An inability to compromise over who should serve as NATO’s next leader forced an extension of the current secretary-general’s term for an extra year.
  — Chris Megerian, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 July 2023
• The terrorist group announced on Tuesday that Islamic cleric Naim Qassem would take the reins of the organization after serving as its deputy secretary-general for decades.
  — Timothy Nerozzi, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 29 Oct. 2024
• All three candidates to be the next Commonwealth secretary-general — from Gambia, Ghana and Lesotho — have endorsed policies of reparatory justice for slavery.
  — Charlotte Graham-McLay, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2024
• The secretary-general should not be selected by the permanent five member states of the Security Council but by the wider General Assembly.
  — Roland Rich, Foreign Affairs, 22 Aug. 2023
• Trump was receptive to Rutte's nickname, saying during a press conference later Wednesday that the secretary-general meant it in an affectionate manner.
  — Mary Bruce, ABC News, 25 June 2025
• Forti, the Crisis Group analyst, said the secretary-general’s plan still relives on voluntarily contributions, which so far have amounted to $110.8 million, far less than what is needed.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
• Musawi was the Party’s second secretary-general, until he was assassinated by Israel, in 1992.
  — Rania Abouzeid, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
• But otherwise, the secretaries-general have been almost uniformly disliked.
  — Amanda Chicago Lewis, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
• Still, on October 7, Israeli forces at the border knew that everything depended on Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general.
  — Amos Harel, Foreign Affairs, 23 July 2024
• She was appointed by the secretary-general in coordination with the U.N. Security Council.
  — Rahim Faiez, ajc, 5 Apr. 2023
• As secretary-general, Urquiza will oversee the organization's day-to-day operations, succeeding Germany's Jürgen Stock, who has led since 2014 and is ineligible for another term.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
• Choi Chang-haeng, secretary-general of the jamboree’s organizing committee, said organizers have secured more than 340 evacuation venues, including community centers and gyms, in regions near Buan.
  — Time, 7 Aug. 2023
• Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s secretary-general, already answered in kind.
  — Asher Kaufman, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2023
• The United Nations secretary-general expressed deep concern and said that all military operations must be conducted with respect for international humanitarian law.
  — Hadas Gold, CNN, 5 July 2023