Sentence examples for a superior official from inspiring English sources

There was thus a diffusion of authority, the communities calling, rather than a superior official appointing, their rabbis.

Finally, after some telephone calls to a superior official, I am allowed in, accompanied by a smiling young guide and a photographer, who takes a picture every time I point at something.

Gaozong first agreed, but he abandoned the counteroffensive when an officer named Li Qiong killed his superior official and defected to the Jin with tens of thousands of soldiers.

Mr Callaghan went to the Treasury, but he was never particularly happy or convincing there, sandwiched between superior officials and a prime minister who prided himself on his knowledge of economics.

On the contrary, if the informal ties between local cadres and superior officials are loose, local officials are at a serious disadvantage when it comes to power conflicts.

Therefore, local officials are expected to be more inclined toward satisfying the needs of their superior officials rather than protecting the interests of grassroots cadres and the masses.

In 1996, Commissioner Howard Safir announced a policy that he would fire any officer for lying to a superior or in an official proceeding.

The latter film is considered by many to be a superior movie to 1983's "official" Roger Moore-headed Bond film, Octopussy.

Hughes, who said that his side would seek to have Derry's dismissal rescinded, suggested that more officials of a superior quality was the solution, rather than advocating goal-line technology.

And it's a superior phone on the grey market, since the official phone doesn't have Wi-Fi.

But as the money began to move, an alert bank employee, who recalled the account as chronically overdrawn, notified his superiors, officials said, and less than $13,000 of the money had been spent when the State Tax Department froze the account.