Sentence examples for for highly placed from inspiring English sources

The words for "highly placed officials" literally mean "top-level bureaucrats".

It asserts that other PaineWebber brokers in the Houston office "were selling as much Enron stock as they possibly could for highly placed Enron clients, despite the fact that inside PaineWebber, brokers commonly joked about Enron's stability".

None of these designs met all the necessary criteria, but two of the architects responsible for highly placed designs agreed to collaborate to produce a final design.

Loper therefore remained at West Point as a student officer until 11 June 1919, when he again graduated, and was assigned to the US Army Corps of Engineers, as was normal for highly placed graduates.

All of the pro-Summers pieces in major news outlets have been packed with quotes from "highly placed sources" (for example, here, here, and here).

But it is unprecedented for a highly placed personage of a friendly country to be denied White House hospitality.

Perhaps around the corner a slightly larger fraud is acceptable, including those too-common courtesy authorships for the highly placed.

After starting in the traditional manner by gunning for some highly placed real or potential political foes, the purge has widened into provincial governments, state-owned enterprises, the military and the regime's main broadcasting station.

But last week, the Iranian government paid for several hundred "highly placed" Iranians living abroad to come back for a three-day, all-expenses-paid trip.

Senator McCain represents old politics: the politics that greases the regulatory path for donors and highly placed friends, and has him jetting off on a private plane with a glitzy young female lobbyist from a corporate dinner.

Having served for many years as a highly placed correspondent for several international news organizations, she knows the news business inside and out.