Sentence examples for security rankings from inspiring English sources

All of Japan's peacekeeping missions have been UN-approved; but since it has contributed few troops relative to its size and military budget, they do not count for much in the index.Japan's decision to send non-combat forces to Iraq earlier this year, after a UN appeal for general assistance, may lift it up the security rankings next time.

Ukrainian investigators arrested three high-ranking security officers in the murder of a prominent journalist in 2000.

After an hour's wait, a pair of high-ranking security officials arrived with a lecture and a warning.

The officials said they had arrested 45 people, including 22 Federal Express employees, among them a high-ranking security official and customer service representatives.

A Labor Day conference call with five of Mr. Obama's highest-ranking security advisers drew 127 House Democrats, nearly two-thirds their total number, after 83 lawmakers of both parties attended a classified briefing on Sunday.

A former air base commander in the southern province of Baluchistan and a high-ranking security officer for Pervez Musharraf, then the president, were arrested in 2009 and accused of having connections to Hizb-ut-Tahrir.

"He can force Republicans to make a fundamental choice: Do they care more about protecting tax breaks or national security?" says the ranking Democrat on the House Budget Committee, Representative Chris Van Hollen of Maryland.

The resolution threatens Syria with economic penalties if it does not give full cooperation to the United Nations investigation that has identified high-ranking security officials as suspects in the assassination of a former Lebanese prime minister, Rafik Hariri.

In the months before he was slain, Mr. Ipekci had written columns attacking far-right groups and others suggesting that heroin smugglers were working with high-ranking security officers.

Sam Dillon (NYT) MEXICO: GENERAL JAILED -- An army general who was made a high-ranking security official in Chiapas state was sentenced to eight years in jail for criminal negligence in the December 1997 killing of 45 Indian villagers.

Cologne's mayor, Henriette Reker, called an emergency meeting of high-ranking security officials on Tuesday, saying her aim was to ensure the city centre did not turn into a "lawless zone".