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

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.

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

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.

Jupiter was served by the patrician Flamen Dialis, the highest-ranking member of the flamines, a college of fifteen priests in the official public cult of Rome, each of whom was devoted to a particular deity.

In Philippines, the rank vice admiral is the highest-ranking official of the Philippine Navy.

The Governor is the highest-ranking official in the state, and he has a broad range of appointive powers in both the State and local governments, as specified by the Maryland Constitution.

Former Governor and Vice President of the United States Spiro Agnew, the highest-ranking government official ever to come from Maryland.

The Governor of Shandong is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Shandong.

Zhao was appointed Party Secretary of Sichuan in 1975, effectively the province's highest-ranking official.

The Governor of Liaoning () is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Liaoning.

In the mid-13th century, it was established as a special court rank, held by the highest-ranking official of the emperor's company.

The Chairman of the Autonomous Region is the highest-ranking official in the People's Government of Ningxia.

According to the Swiss order of precedence, the President of the Confederation is the highest-ranking Swiss official.

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.

She was also the highest-ranking official in the Swiss order of precedence, and had the power to act on behalf of the whole Council in emergency situations.

* In ancient Egypt the highest-ranking government official, appointed by the pharaoh and acting as his chancellor ( chief administrator ; Egyptian: taty ), is called vizier by modern researchers.

Johnson ordered that the highest-ranking Marine officer, the Commandant of the Marine Corps, be deleted from the official roll of chiefs of service branches authorized a driver and limousine, and for whom a special gun salute was prescribed on ceremonial occasions.

On February 12, as the next highest-ranking officer, Travis became the official commander of the Alamo garrison.

The President is not the Swiss head of state, but he or she is the highest-ranking Swiss official.

Shaw was the highest-ranking Muslim elected official in the United States until the election of Keith Ellison to represent Minnesota's 5th congressional district.

At the time, Taniwal was the highest-ranking post-Taliban official to be killed by insurgent forces in the country.

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

Osmeña was 29 years old and already the highest-ranking Filipino official.

The seven suburbicarian dioceses are Roman Catholic dioceses located in the vicinity of Rome, whose ( titular ) bishops form the highest-ranking order of Cardinals, the Cardinal Bishops.

The College of Pontiffs or Collegium Pontificum ( see collegium ) was a body of the ancient Roman state whose members were the highest-ranking priests of the state religion.

** a significant example is the College of Pontiffs whose members were the highest-ranking priests of the state religion.

Some of the characters close to Tito whom Maclean met in his first months in Bosnia were Vlatko Velebit, an urbane young man about town, who later went with Maclean to Allied HQ as a liaison officer ; Father Vlado ( Vlado Zechevich ), a Serbian Orthodox priest, " raconteur and trencherman "; Arso Jovanović, the Chief of Staff ; Edo Kardelj, the Marxist theoretician who ended up vice-premier ; Aleksandar Ranković, a professional revolutionary and Party organiser ; Milovan Đilas ( Dzilas ), who became vice-president ; Moša Pijade, one of the highest-ranking Jews ; and a young woman named Olga whose father had been a minister in the Royalist government and who spoke English like a debutante.

The churchyard contains the grave of shipping reformer Samuel Plimsoll ( whose gravestone bears the Plimsoll line ), and, among many military burials, 24 CWGC-registered war graves, with all three armed forces represented, 15 from World War I ( Major-General Hubert Hamilton being the first and highest-ranking of the latter ) and 9 from World War II.

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.

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

Fort Hunt is the site of the death of Lieutenant Commander Werner Henke, the highest-ranking German officer to be shot while in American captivity during World War II.

After the reductions in the peerage that had taken place during the Tudor period, Buckingham was left as the highest-ranking subject outside the royal family.

Lt. Col. William Stacy of the Continental Army was the highest-ranking officer captured by Brant and his allies during the Cherry Valley massacre.

Only Consuls ( the highest-ranking of all Roman Magistrates ) could preside over the Century Assembly during elections because the higher-ranking Consuls were always elected together with the lower-ranking Praetors.

He was killed during the closing days of the Battle of Okinawa by enemy artillery fire, making him the highest-ranking U. S. military officer to have been killed by enemy fire during World War II ,.

Rose was the highest-ranking American killed by enemy fire in the European Theater of Operations during the war.

* Lieutenant-General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. was killed during the closing days of the Battle of Okinawa by enemy artillery fire, making him the highest-ranking US military officer to have been killed by enemy fire during World War II.

Simonyi remained at Microsoft during its rapid rise in the software industry, becoming one of its highest-ranking developers.

First elected to the U. S. House of Representatives in 1976, Bonior served as Democratic whip in the House from 1991 to 2002, during which time Democrats were in both the majority ( 1991 – 1995 ) and minority ( 1995 – 2002 ), making Bonior the third and second highest-ranking Democrat in the House, respectively.

* Gobernador General-The highest-ranking official in the Philippines during the Spanish colonial period, this unnamed character pretends that what he is doing is for the good of the Indios, the local citizens of the country, but in reality, he prioritizes the needs of his fellow Spaniards living in the country.

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.

God's Wife of Amun ( Egyptian: ) was the highest-ranking priestess of the Amun cult, an important Ancient Egyptian religious institution centered in Thebes during the Egyptian 25th and 26th dynasties ( circa 740-525 BC ).

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.