One high ranking policymaker noted in mid July, This is truly shocking We understand politics, but your government s continued recklessness is astonishing.

Mr. Monirul Islam, another high police official, said

Ahmadinejad is not the first high ranking official in Iran to challenge the supreme leader.

A top official said the government will review these schools dance routines from a moral perspective.

As a senior Asian statesman told me recently, Deng would never have made this mistake.

On this September 26 the newspaper Vedomosti citing a senior source in the ruling party.

The volunteer who carries out the task of torture is less liable than the high ranking civil servant who justified and nurtured it.

First, in May 2007, the cartels killed Jose Nemesio Lugo Felix, the general coordinator of information at the National Center for Planning and Analysis to Combat Organized Crime. Soon after, a hit man murdered Edgar Milan Gomez, Mexico s highest ranking Federal police official.

Soon after, a hit man murdered Edgar Milan Gomez, Mexico s highest ranking Federal police official.

A high ranking Moldova military official in an old Soviet Volga car, during the military parade in Chisinau, Moldova.

It is based on comparing the cost of action with the cost of inaction, and almost every major politician in the world uses it.

One high ranking policymaker noted in mid July, This is truly shocking We understand politics, but your government s continued recklessness is astonishing.

Corpses of historic figures, such as Zhang Zhidong, a high ranking official in the Qing Dynasty, were exhumed, with the decaying bodies left hanging in trees.

And one senior US administration official was quoted accusing the UK of constant accommodation of China, which is not the best way to engage a rising power.

As one top American diplomat put it, The last worry I have when I wake up at three in the morning is that Europe is becoming too strong.

Israeli warplanes struck a target inside the Syrian port city of Latakia Thursday night, a senior administration official confirms to Fox News.

A top official from MIIT also said foreign sites must abide by Chinese laws and that the new method must be introduced to tackle the problem.

The highest official called out so far is the former chief executive officer of Capital Roads Authority (Addis Ababa), a position that is nowhere near as powerful as claimed by government media.

Hwang Jang yop, North Korea s former chief ideologist and its most senior defector to the South, describes North Korea as a mixture of socialism, modern feudalism, and militarism.

In all likelihood the Americans would have done an Iraq on Pakistan, as one highly placed member of the foreign ministry conceded to me in the week after September 11 th .

In Macedonia, there was a public uproar over a tweet by Gordana Jankuloska, the former Macedonian Minister of Interior and a high ranking official of the ruling party, VMRO DPMNE.

For example, Ichizo Miyamoto, a former senior finance ministry official, claims that, accounting for the government s assets, Japan s net debt GDP ratio is below 100 , similar to that of the United States.

If we d been for it, it probably would have happened.

If enacted, Brown Kaufman would have broken up the six biggest banks in America, a senior Treasury official said. If we d been for it, it probably would have happened.

As one high official puts it, the organization is like the old and bruised car one keeps for as long as it functions but will dump when repairs get too costly. There is still some use to be had from the old vehicle it leads some 6000 troops in Afghanistan, assures a fragile security in Kosovo, and may, as was decided by NATO in June, be helpful in training Iraqi forces.

Regular bus lines have been opened, and, according to a high ranking Turkish bank official, We were hesitating about opening a branch in Syria because of the US embargo, so the sending of an envoy is like a green light to us.

Cheng Kejie, a high Party official executed for corruption last year, was long under special surveillance by the Public Security Bureau.

For example, Ichizo Miyamoto, a former senior finance ministry official, claims that, accounting for the government s assets, Japan s net debt GDP ratio is below 100 , similar to that of the United States.

As one high official puts it, the organization is like the old and bruised car one keeps for as long as it functions but will dump when repairs get too costly.

One very senior government official of a northern European country did not even put down his fork when interrupted by an earnest dinner companion who pointed out that many Spaniards now eat out of garbage cans.

State run news agency Al Ahram reported that 21 news websites were banned in Egypt for supporting terrorism and spreading lies, according to a high level security source.

As a high ranking European Commission official once asked me Your debt will be cut come hell or high water, so why are you expending precious political capital to insist that we deliver the restructuring now?

It is no less ironic that Pakistan, once seen as the protector of Western interests in South Asia, has become the central challenge to those interests what one high Western dignitary has undiplomatically called an international migraine.

The Third Plenum of the 18th Party Congress gave primacy to the principle of market competition but, as a senior Chinese banker commented in a related context some years back It s quite hard to compete when you re playing against the referee.

In addition, Pak Nam gi, the senior finance ministry official considered responsible for North Korea s botched issuance of a new currency last year, has disappeared, and Kim Yong il, North Korea s prime minister, was fired on June 7.

International humanitarian efforts to help those in Sudan are hampered by Sudanese government harassment and pointless bureaucratic hassles. Even if the aid arrives, the point, to quote one senior UN official, seems to be keeping people alive with our humanitarian assistance until they are massacredampquot .

Even if the aid arrives, the point, to quote one senior UN official, seems to be keeping people alive with our humanitarian assistance until they are massacredampquot .