Sentence examples for most important official from inspiring English sources

No other country memorializes its conquerors on the walls of its most important official building.

And everyone, from the most important official to the person whose job it was to confiscate our water and frisk for weapons, remained genuinely buoyant.

"Chen Yonglin could easily prove to be the most important official ever to defect from a Communist country to Australia," a columnist, Brian Toohey, who has long covered intelligence matters, wrote in The Australian Financial Review.

His candidacy was not taken seriously until 2004, when the job that he didn't want put him in charge of voting procedures and made him the most important official in the state.

Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, hailed the extraordinary and admirable choice of a foreigner such as Mr. Carney to assume the country's most important official position, "even if Canadians are not very foreign".

As the voice of the most information-management-minded British leader in history, Mr. Campbell has become a closely observed public figure and is credited with such influence that he is commonly portrayed in the press as the second most important official in the government.

At times, Germany's two most important officials appeared to be at odds over their policy toward the euro zone.

The most important officials keep it away from them for the obvious reason that they are writers: they have friends at newspapers; they eventually write memoirs.

Mr O'Donnell, a Manchester United supporter, is about to become head of a newly created division combining economic policy at home and abroad, making him one of the chancellor's most important officials.

Although Republicans close to the president say she has lost some of her ability to affect policy decisions, she still talks to Mr. Bush two or three times a week, if not more, and is in daily contact with some of the most important officials in the West Wing.

In other words, if we were to say, "Well, that's always happened," we'd almost be officially saying that there is a double standard — that what we can't tolerate in our personal life is O.K. in the most important officials we have, those officials with power not only over us but over our young men and women who go to fight, and over the people they kill.