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Various people claiming to be former lieutenants have spoken out and last year a bunch of hacked emails described in detail how internet commenters in the small town of Ganzhou were instructed to guide conversations on the web.
As he did every morning, he logged into Oink as administrator, checked the server logs, and read the overnight messages from his deputised lieutenants.
Last month, Preibus and a handful of top lieutenants carefully telegraphed the findings of a new report wherein the party's legion political liabilities were diagnosed.
Her other quality was of leadership of the sort that is rare in senior leaders, but which is part of the Sandhurst training for 2nd lieutenants.
McConnell schooled Cruz this week, Howard Fineman wrote in the Huffington Post: McConnell isolated and neutralized Cruz by meeting quietly and carefully with small groups of GOP senators over the last week, and then took soundings at lunches and conferences -- all the while essentially working around Cruz and his handful of top lieutenants.
The most favoured potential managers of new hedge funds these days are the key lieutenants at existing large funds, says Dominic Freemantle of Morgan Stanley.Enough new funds are still launching to raise a question: why would any investor prefer managers at an established firm to set up their own shop?
AN ALLEGED assassination attempt on his deputy, a pow-wow in London for 15 opposition groups hoping to topple his regime, a call for him and his lieutenants to be tried for war crimes, and yet another row with UN weapons inspectors: on the face of it, the past week has brought nothing but bad news for Iraq's President Saddam Hussein.
On his death a leadership battle ensued, motivated, the army claims, by his lieutenants ' desire to lay hands on a vast fortune that their dead "emir" had accrued by extortion and foreign donations.
The president, however, is said to be in a fighting mood after his re-election, and generally prefers to promote loyal lieutenants of long standing, like Mr Lew.The selection of Ms Rice as secretary of state would also spark a row.
And his lieutenants , Jeff Skilling, briefly chief executive, and Andrew Fastow, chief financial officer, were seen as masterminds who understood that the best way to make money in the energy business was to trade the stuff, not to drill for it.But it now appears that the phenomenal success of Enron was a chimera.
While it is not known if this attack was connected to Mr Mohammed, it has been linked to Muslim extremists, and could be the work of a terror cell he is thought to have set up there in the 1990s.Perhaps the biggest question of all is whether al-Qaeda is sufficiently well-developed that there are lieutenants ready to take Mr Mohammed's place.
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The primary grammatical function of "lieutenants" is as a plural noun , referring to multiple individuals who serve as deputies or assistants to a leader, particularly in hierarchical organizations. Ludwig shows its frequent usage in describing military or organizational structure.
Expression frequency: Very common
