Sentence examples for high-level figure from inspiring English sources

Almost every week brings a fresh accusation of corruption against some high-level figure.

The United Nations resolution that ended the war did not include a clause on missing or detainees, but Mr. Chowdhury said there was a strong need for a high-level figure to be appointed to deal specifically with that issue.

At least one high-level figure has been gunned down every month this year, including Yugoslavia's defense minister, Pavle Bulatovic, and the paramilitary leader Zeljko Raznatovic, better known as Arkan.

With only a year to go until China's first leadership change in a decade, no high-level figure in the central government is likely to back significant changes now.

WASHINGTON — In March 2002, John Kiriakou coordinated a team of fellow Central Intelligence Agency officers and Pakistani agents that descended upon a house in Pakistan where they believed they might find Abu Zubaydah, a high-level figure in Al Qaeda.

"We have just got to have one, overarching, robust inquiry, led by a high-level figure, looking into all these different stories, to put the whole thing into proper context".

The current investigation so far seems to be focusing on two high-level figures very close to the governor.

Troops have arrested several dozen men and removed weapons but have not captured any high-level figures.

It is unprecedented for a court in Egypt to summon such high-level figures, particularly authorities from the highly secretive military and intelligence services.

Despite Washington's aid in creating an anticorruption task force, no high-level figures have been indicted, although there has been some prosecutions of municipal officials.

He has been tied to high-level figures in the Pakistan-based militant group responsible for the Mumbai attacks.