Sentence examples for highest officials of from inspiring English sources

The report said it "did not find conclusive evidence that the highest officials of the state conspired to produce the disenfranchisement of voters".

There is also discussion about permitting students to take the bar after only two years rather than three, a decision that would have to be made by the highest officials of a state court system.

Or perhaps the reason is that in the audience are the highest officials of all 3 branches of government, including, of course, people from both parties, so that no single public-relations script can be imposed on the occasion.

Indyk wouldn't elaborate, but the implication was clear: Rosen and Weissman will defend themselves by arguing that they were working in concert with the highest officials of the organization, including Kohr.

On Christmas Eve, hours before Pope John Paul II was to say midnight Mass, the highest officials of Italian government met to assess intelligence reports about potential terror attacks, possibly including one on the Vatican, a city official close to the mayor said Saturday.

A statement by the Philippines department of national defense said that direct military actions are allowed only during "actual foreign invasion by another state actor" and any move outside of that would need to be approved by "the highest officials of our nations".

Even Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, the highest official of the Roman Catholic Church in China and a vociferous critic of Beijing's rights record, has moderated his tone in recent weeks.

He is Thich Tri Quang, second highest official of the General Buddhist Association, who eluded authorities on the night of Aug. 20 when pagodas throughout the country were raided.

As the highest official of the South Vietnamese government in the province, he was to assume responsibility for villagers recently freed from Communist domination.

Doge, (Venetian Italian: "duke"), highest official of the republic of Venice for more than 1,000 years (from the 8th to the 18th century) and symbol of the sovereignty of the Venetian state.

So to have the president of France — the highest official of an esteemed European land — single out the Roma as some kind of hostile force was, Mr. Schwarzenberg said, "such a shock, and such a surprise".