The US did not invoke diplomatic immunity for De Sousa or other low level officials.
Because even low level officials then were appointed by elected politicians, those at the top worried about a reaction at the polls if their appointees treated people poorly.
By the 19th century, it is estimated that a direct magistrate, the lowest level official responsible for all local administration, might be responsible for as many as 250,000 people.
Beijing has supported a series of low-level official contacts with Taiwan politicians.
She says most of her efforts have been lost in the haze of bureaucracy, as she has battled with one low-level official after another about minute matters.
Falun Gong, started in 1992 by Li Hongzhi, a former low-level official now living in the United States, attracted millions of Chinese with its blend of traditional meditative techniques and promises of spiritual salvation and physical well-being.
But the U.S. statement came from a low-level official, the spokeswoman of the embassy in Beijing, when it ought to be delivered directly by President Trump to Mr. Xi.
In her memoir Dream Catcher (2000), the novelist's daughter from his second marriage, Margaret Salinger, wrote that Sylvia was a low-level official in the Nazi party whom her father, working in counter-intelligence, met when he was sent to arrest her.
After attending Benedictine College Preparatory, a private military high school, he went to Virginia Tech, graduating in 1976, and spent seven years in the Navy — four at sea and three as a low-level official at the Pentagon, dealing with budget and planning.
