"You can't make this stuff up," says a high-ranking aide.    From Wordnik.com.  [PERISCOPE] Reference

"We almost never turn them down," said one high-ranking official.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road To September 11] Reference

Many high-ranking Serbs were vehemently opposed to any retreat from Kosovo.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Test Of Survival] Reference

"We drafted it, not Karadzic," says a high-ranking U.N. official in Sarajevo.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Of A Dream] Reference

"It's a 50-50 chance," a high-ranking U.S. intelligence official told NEWSWEEK.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Did the pilots feel pressure from their high-ranking passengers to land on schedule?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death In The Mountains: How A Vip Jet Strayed] Reference

The typical customers are sartorially conservative, high-ranking executives older than 40.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diamonds Are for Men] Reference

"We've tried attacks of this kind in the past," a high-ranking officer confided yesterday.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter From Ramallah] Reference

Most of Mobutu's high-ranking supporters were only interested in getting out of the country.    From Wordnik.com.  [Back To The Congo] Reference

Said a high-ranking administration official, "This is a better way to deal with biodiversity.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grinch Of Rio] Reference

Later her mother dispatched Helga to the foster care of a high-ranking Nazi secret-police man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hitler's Children] Reference

"It's just a fact that he's never run a company before," says one high-ranking Disney official.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Classic Matchup] Reference

Finally, Albanians hold high-ranking executive positions in the Army, the police and the government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

The U.S. government should consider whether it is fair not to allow any high-ranking Taiwan official to visit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking A Tightrope] Reference

I think they were actually founded by folks who were at Rikers Island, but Spears is a very high-ranking general.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unholy Alliance] Reference

On recent trips to Asia, high-ranking U.S. officials sent public signals that China should allow the yuan to rise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Topics At Davos] Reference

She spoke on the phone to the Israeli prime minister and raised the gender awareness of a high-ranking official in Qatar.    From Wordnik.com.  [ENRON'S DIRTY LAUNDRY] Reference

"I think he's going to be OK in the technical legal sense," said a close friend with a high-ranking job in the White House.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Go-Between] Reference

"They" were there at all levels -- high-ranking officials, rescue workers, firefighters, police, doctors, nurses and on and on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

"The downside," muttered one high-ranking political operative the morning after, "is that now we need to actually do something.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Overhearing The Agenda] Reference

There are a number of former high-ranking officers from Saddam's Army who are waiting in the wings and deserve to be taken seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRAQ IN THE BALANCE] Reference

He has repeatedly said he has a list of more than 100 high-ranking Afghan ---- officials he suspects of involvement in the drug trade.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Harvest Of Treachery] Reference

"They" were there at all levels-among the high-ranking officials, rescue workers, fire-fighters, police, doctors, nurses and on and on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mail Call] Reference

And Chalabi's admirers among Washington neoconservatives are now touting him as a possible high-ranking member of a new Iraqi government.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

The sons and daughters of high-ranking party officials (the Chinese call them taizidang or princelings) have the strongest guanxi imaginable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seasick In A Rising Tide] Reference

Indeed, high-ranking officials admit that they see Islamic fundamentalism as a threat even greater than Bush's plans for a national missile defense.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Big Gamble] Reference

According to high-ranking Chinese officials I met with, in the beginning Beijing wants to build basic infrastructure in the west rather than industries.    From Wordnik.com.  [GOTTA TURN CHINESE] Reference

Corruption and a biased legal system protect the counterfeiters, many of whom have connections to high-ranking officials of the government or the military.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Fight Music] Reference

She comes from one of Japan's most prominent families-her father is a high-ranking Foreign Ministry official-and grew up in the Soviet Union and the United States.    From Wordnik.com.  [Princess Bride: Japan's New Sweetheart] Reference

Zuhair Humadi, a high-ranking Iraqi official who lives in the Green Zone, recently attended a public wedding celebration in Baghdad without a massive security detail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baghdad Comes Alive] Reference

American military commanders, however, were much less sanguine, say informed high-ranking officers who did not wish to publicly discuss the private views of their superiors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush's Truman Show] Reference

Jorge Zorreguieta, 73, was a high-ranking Argentine government official during the "dirty war" of 1976-83, when the junta tortured and killed more than 10,000 suspected leftists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fractured Fairy Tales] Reference