Sentence examples for a very senior one from inspiring English sources
Upon arrival, however, we found not merely the big-bore locals but also an American diplomat, not a very senior one, but still exalted enough to allow himself proconsular airs, his staff galloping around him as if he were ordering dispositions in battle, and not merely another whiskey soda.
BEIJING — It's a badly kept secret in Beijing that quite a few Chinese officials, including very senior ones, never warmed to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The dangers are that journalists become captives of their sources, and an especially big risk in times as chaotic as the past few years have been that those sources, even very senior ones, don't actually know what is going on themselves.
Politicians seem to keep out of staff appointments except, of course, the very senior ones that only they can make.
A senior lawyer who was at the meeting described the man as a sophisticated financial executive who "had been in a very senior position at one of the banks on Wall Street".
There can Bill Gross endisg, but like Nicholas, Bill, George and others, are havery a hard time figuring it out.
One guy, a very senior leader in UK finance, was quite difficult," said King. "He just kept saying: 'Our approach is to engage with the tobacco companies.
A very senior public figure spent some years in one of our more prestigious universities.
One is identified as a "very senior member" of that group.
I was on this briefing call with a (very real) senior WH official, and at one point got disconnected.
