Sentence examples for a top administration from inspiring English sources

"We're not in the criminal justice business, we're in the national defense business," said a top administration official.

Last month some White House officials told Republican allies that Mr. Friedman was under consideration for a top administration job.

A top administration official described the proceedings as "grueling" and said that even minor progress was a real victory.

"We're pushing ahead with this process and trying to deal with Ayatollah's concerns," said a top administration official.

It was the first speech in which a top administration official offered a vision for making Internet freedom an integral part of foreign policy.

The next day, a top administration official said President Bush was considering making Mr. Ridge's position cabinet-level, putting him unambiguously under Congressional oversight.

Fox News, CNN and ABC reported Friday that K.T. McFarland, a former top administration official Trump has nominated to become an ambassador, was the "senior official" in question.

Several advisers and Republican officials with close ties to the campaign said that Mr. Bush already knew who would be filling a few top administration posts and had ever-shortening lists of candidates for other senior jobs and Cabinet slots.

Critics of the deal, including Israel and Saudi Arabia, renewed their concerns, while a former top administration intelligence official said that the deal would be "dangerous" and that President Obama's Middle East policy is one of "willful ignorance".

But that night, with Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi's forces turning back the rebellion that threatened his rule, Mrs. Clinton changed course, forming an unlikely alliance with a handful of top administration aides who had been arguing for intervention.

A number of top administration officials are heeding that unwritten rule.