The phrase "superior official" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to someone who holds a higher ranking position in an organization or government agency. Example: The budget proposal was submitted to the board of directors for approval by the company's superior officials.
There was thus a diffusion of authority, the communities calling, rather than a superior official appointing, their rabbis.
Finally, after some telephone calls to a superior official, I am allowed in, accompanied by a smiling young guide and a photographer, who takes a picture every time I point at something.
Gaozong first agreed, but he abandoned the counteroffensive when an officer named Li Qiong killed his superior official and defected to the Jin with tens of thousands of soldiers.
Mr Callaghan went to the Treasury, but he was never particularly happy or convincing there, sandwiched between superior officials and a prime minister who prided himself on his knowledge of economics.
Therefore, local officials are expected to be more inclined toward satisfying the needs of their superior officials rather than protecting the interests of grassroots cadres and the masses.
On the contrary, if the informal ties between local cadres and superior officials are loose, local officials are at a serious disadvantage when it comes to power conflicts.
But as the money began to move, an alert bank employee, who recalled the account as chronically overdrawn, notified his superiors, officials said, and less than $13,000 of the money had been spent when the State Tax Department froze the account.
Lt. Gen. Claudia J. Kennedy, the Army's deputy chief of staff for intelligence, filed a formal sexual harassment complaint against the general last year, more than three years after first complaining informally to her superiors, officials familiar with the case said.
Those superiors, officials of the state N.A.A.C.P., criticize the two men, Carlos Coca and Sundiata Sadiq, for having taken a stand last year on a national issue, publicly opposing the incarceration of a death row inmate convicted in the 1981 killing of a Philadelphia police officer.
Other senior officials were unaware of the memorandum before Sept. 11, including Michael Rolince, who managed the bureau's international terrorism unit, and Dale Watson, his superior, the officials said.
Another danger, according to Mr. Keane, is that serious complaints will be lost among the chatter of trivial ones, rather than coming to the attention of officers' superiors through official channels.
