** The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese de facto paramount leader.

* The General Secretary, which is the highest-ranking official within the Party and usually the Chinese Paramount leader.

The highest-ranking British officer in Egypt, known as the Sirdar, also served as Governor General of the Sudan.

These resignations left Solicitor General Robert Bork as the highest-ranking member of the Justice Department ; insisting that he believed the decision unwise but also that somebody had to obey the president's orders, Bork dismissed Cox.

Lieutenant General Lesley McNair was among the dead — the highest-ranking victim of American friendly fire.

Since the abolition of the post Chairman of the Communist Party of China in 1982, the General Secretary is the highest-ranking official of the party and heads the Secretariat, Politburo of the Party and its Standing Committee.

One such bomb killed Israeli Brigadier General Erez Gerstein on February 28, 1999, the highest-ranking Israeli to die in Lebanon since Yekutiel Adam's death in 1982.

The Serbian General Staff is composed of the highest-ranking officers who form the basic strategic command.

Later in 2005, Attorney General Greg Stumbo, the state's highest-ranking Democrat, launched an investigation into whether the Fletcher administration's hiring practices violated the state's merit system.

This was the first time in Vietnamese history where the highest-ranking member of the Politburo does not hold post of either General Secretary or Chairman ( was in existence from 1951 to 1969 ) of the party.

The dead included Bradley's friend and fellow West Pointer Lieutenant General Lesley McNair — the highest-ranking U. S. soldier to be killed in action in the European Theater of Operations.

Since the reestablishment of the German armed forces after World War II, the Inspector General of the Federal Armed Forces ( Generalinspekteur der Bundeswehr ) is the highest-ranking soldier, responsible for the overall military planning and the principal military advisor of the Federal Minister of Defense and the Federal Government.

As a military rank, a Sardar typically marked the Commander-in-Chief or the highest-ranking military officer in an Army, akin to the modern Field Marshal, General of the Army or Chief of Army.

However, the General Prologue also provides an ideal member of each estate as a model with which the others can be compared and contrasted-the Parson, the Knight ( technically not a nobleman, but the highest-ranking layman present ), and the Plowman.

Alberto R. Gonzales ( born August 4, 1955 ) was the 80th, and the first Hispanic United States Attorney General, appointed in February 2005 by President George W. Bush, becoming the highest-ranking Hispanic in executive government to date.

Wilkins worked as a welfare lawyer in Ohio before becoming an Assistant Attorney General in President Lyndon B. Johnson's administration at age 33, one of the highest-ranking blacks ever to serve in the executive branch up to that time.

To thank Texas A & M for its assistance during World War II, the US Army designated Reveille a Cadet General ( 5 diamonds ), the highest-ranking member of the Texas A & M Corps of Cadets.

Reiss is writing a biography of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, the mixed-race son of a Norman marquis and an Haitian slave, who became a swashbuckling swordsman in Paris and then a military hero of the French Revolutionary Wars, remaining the highest-ranking black military figure in a Western army until Gen. Colin Powell 200 years later.

* The highest-ranking General in the history of the Indian Air Force is a Sikh Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Singh

* General Wainwright: The highest-ranking member of the military shown in the books.

Lieutenant General Edward Soriano ( born in November 1946 ) was the highest-ranking Filipino American officer to have served in the United States military.

Goli Ameri is the Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, as well as the former U. S. Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs from 2008 to 2009, during which she was the highest-ranking Iranian-American public official in the United States.

This park is named after Brigadier General Sanford B. Stanbery, who was the highest-ranking officer from Hamilton County in World War I.

Spiro T. Agnew, who was the Governor of Maryland from 1967 – 1969, later served as the Vice-President of the United States for a time under President Richard M. Nixon, and Agnew is, thus far, the highest-ranking Marylander in the history of the United States.

When Albright took office as the 64th U. S. Secretary of State on January 23, 1997, she became the first female U. S. Secretary of State and the highest-ranking woman in the history of the U. S. government.

She was the first woman to hold the office and to date, has been the highest-ranking female politician in American history.

* Colin Winchester ( 1933 – 1989 ), highest-ranking officer to be murdered in Australian policing history

Vice Admiral Karo was the highest-ranking officer in the history of the USC & GS / ESSA / NOAA Corps.

President was for a long time the highest-ranking title in the bank's history, however this was superseded by Chief Executive Officer in the modern era, starting with G. Arnold Hart.

Cantor is the highest-ranking Jewish member of Congress in its history.

The current President, Trương Tấn Sang, is the Politburo's highest-ranking member, the first time in history were the top decision maker in the Politburo does not concurrently hold a high-ranking party office.

Clarice Starling, as portrayed by Foster, was ranked the sixth greatest protagonist in film history on AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Heroes and Villains, making her the highest-ranking heroine.

She left the office of Mayor before the end of her term, replaced by acting mayor Fotini Pipili, to become Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece on 15 February 2006 and thus the highest-ranking woman in the history of the Cabinet of Greece.

Perez, who had been the highest-ranking black and Hispanic woman in the Academy's history, was the first female West Point graduate to die in Iraq.

Tran and Texas State Representative Hubert Vo were the highest-ranking Vietnamese American elected officials in U. S. history until Anh Cao was elected to the United States House of Representatives in December 2008.

The " highest-ranking " woman in AIM at the time, she had been shot execution style in mid-December 1975 and left in a far corner of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation after having been kidnapped from Denver, Colorado and interrogated in Rapid City, South Dakota as a possible FBI informant.

In 1979, Atal Bihari Vajpayee became the highest-ranking Indian official to visit Beijing, meeting China's leaders.

The school regularly participates in many international competitions and is currently the highest-ranking Indian team in the World rankings.

The Chief of the Army Staff is the commander and usually the highest-ranking officer of the Indian Army.

The Chief of Staff is typically the highest-ranking officer on active-duty in the U. S. Air Force unless the Chairman and / or the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are Air Force officers.

He is one of the highest-ranking men in England and the highest ranking non-royal in the United Kingdom's order of precedence.

Larger geographical areas, called Territories, are led by a Territorial Commander, who is the highest-ranking officer in that Territory.

Following this reform, the entire Psalter is again generally recited each week, with the festal psalms restricted to only the highest-ranking feasts.

There is much variation ; often the CEO also holds the title of President, while in other organizations if there is a separate CEO, the President is then second highest-ranking position.

The Commandant of the Marine Corps ( CMC ) is normally the highest-ranking officer in the United States Marine Corps and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

The Chief of Naval Operations is typically the highest-ranking officer on active-duty in the U. S. Navy unless the Chairman and / or the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are naval officers.

The highest-ranking bishop of the communion is the Patriarch of Constantinople, who is also primate of one of the autocephalous churches.

The Chief Executive is the head of the special administrative region, and is also the highest-ranking official in the Government of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, and is the head of the executive branch.

A hierarchy is typically visualized as a pyramid, where the height of the ranking or person depicts their power status and the width of that level represents how many people or business divisions are at that level relative to the whole — the highest-ranking people are at the apex, and there are very few of them ; the base may include thousands of people who have no subordinates ).

The highest-ranking officer in Syria's navy is the equivalent of lieutenant general.

The Secretary is a member of the Cabinet and the highest-ranking cabinet secretary both in line of succession and order of precedence.

As the highest-ranking member of the cabinet, the Secretary of State is the third-highest official of the executive branch of the Federal Government of the United States, after the President and Vice President and is fourth in line to succeed the Presidency, coming after the Vice President, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and the President pro tempore of the Senate.

The Speaker is the highest-ranking member of the opposition party and is normally the chief public opponent of the President's agenda.

When there are several vice presidents in a company they are sometimes ranked by naming the highest-ranking Senior Executive Vice President which is next to President, the second highest-ranking Executive Vice President, then Senior Vice President and the remainder of the management team just VP.