Sentence examples for highly placed official from inspiring English sources

At last, the eldest and most highly placed official accepted the seat of honor.

Khartoum is, according to one highly placed official in the ruling party, "tired of war".

He and the entire leadership of the Iasi National Salvation Front were removed by army commanders, a highly placed official said.

Exactly how much the Chinese box office is worth is a matter of considerable political pride, with a highly placed official recently claiming that the 2014 total will reach $4.9bn, and that with a projected 30% year on year increase, in three years China will overtake the US as the world's biggest film market.

According to the Hindustan Times, a highly placed official, on condition of anonymity, said, "We already know that the Surat strain was not Indian.

An evil king or warlock is good in fantasy, as is a priest, a highly placed official or a member of a manipulative secret society.

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

The primacy of the US-Chinese relationship was familiar to a number of highly placed officials in the Obama administration.

An accountant and auditor, Magnitsky claimed to have uncovered large-scale theft of state funds by highly placed officials.

Numerous Communist Party candidates, including highly placed officials, suffered defeat, all the more humiliating in those cases when they ran unopposed.

The 60 names include highly placed officials in the Russian Interior Ministry, prosecutorial Investigative Committee and prison administration, as well as 12 judges.