Sentence examples for highly regarded official from inspiring English sources

The announcement came after the federal government sent a highly regarded official, Kanwar Pal Singh Gill, to help restore order.

There he met Henry Crumpton, a highly regarded official who had supervised the C.I.A.'s covert activities in Afghanistan during the 2001 military campaign that overthrew the Taliban.

In one particularly embarrassing episode, he failed to back up the highly regarded official he brought in to reform the police department at a critical moment when the official's prestige was on the line.

Ms. Lagarde is one of Europe's most highly regarded economic officials.

Mr. McLaughlin is highly regarded, but White House officials have said a central motivation for keeping him on is to avoid a confirmation battle in the Senate this summer.

But the number of Hispanic and Asian-American graduates will increase sharply, according to projections by the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, whose demographic estimates are highly regarded by admissions officials.

But transition officials said Mr. Obama also intended to keep the C.I.A's No. 2 official, Stephen R. Kappes, a highly regarded former Marine officer and agency veteran.

Vitor Gaspar, the Portuguese finance minister who came to power as part of a new government last summer, is highly regarded by European economic and finance officials.

KABUL, Afghanistan — A Taliban suicide bomber on Saturday infiltrated a heavily guarded governor's compound in northern Afghanistan where top NATO and Afghan officials from the region were meeting, killing several people there, including the highly regarded police commander Gen. Daoud Daoud, Afghan officials said.

Current and former national security officials have said Morell, a highly regarded agency veteran, is a favorite to succeed retired Gen. David Petraeus as the agency's director.

The winners of this year's 2012 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship were notified of their highly regarded recognition through a phone call only days before the official announcement.