Sentence examples for influential officials from inspiring English sources

I think the problem has more to do with influential officials taking resources for themselves.

Rahm Emanuel and Jesse Jackson, Jr., a U.S. representative from Illinois, among other influential officials, may eventually face the prospect of embarrassment, or worse.

Freer is one of Whitehall's most influential officials and a member of David Cameron's small team of private secretaries at Downing Street.

Other influential officials were also dismissed in late 2010 and in 2011, to prepare the way, it was rumoured, for the succession of the president's brother, Peter Mutharika, or the first lady, Callista Chapola-Chimombo Mutharika, in the 2014 election.

From the start of President Bush's term, some influential officials in his administration saw India as a potential counterweight to that other Asian behemoth, China, whose growing power was seen as a potential strategic threat.

Raymond Cowen retired at the end of March after 12 years in the post, leaving a gap in the short list of the most influential officials on the Island.

Zhou was born into a highly influential official family and served in high governmental capacities throughout most of his life.

In April 1997, Mr. Lay wrote the governor about an upcoming meeting scheduled between Mr. Bush and an influential official from Uzbekistan.

The most influential official to have been executed was Jang Song-thaek, Kim's uncle and second-in-command.

SEOUL, South Korea — An influential official from North Korea left for China on Monday to discuss building joint industrial complexes on their borders, the North's state-run Korean Central News Agency reported.

President Vincent Auriol has in seven years, strengthened the office of President until he has become the most influential official in France.