"It is like a bowl of minestrone soup," said Luis Miquilena, a former high-ranking adviser to Mr. Chávez, of the president's philosophy.

Abu Bakr is reported to have said to the high-ranking advisers:

Her mother is a high-ranking adviser to the Regent, so she was spared the usual fate of such failure.

During the Reagan Administration, the number of ethical transgressions by high-ranking Presidential advisers resulted in dozens of resignations, dismissals and indictments.

A high-ranking mayoral adviser who spoke on the condition of anonymity said: "I think he's being pushed by the events that are happening.

A "high-ranking adviser to Bush who had known the presidential candidate for several years."

A high-ranking Republican adviser indicated that the session was an exercise in posing for the cameras and looking polite for political reasons, more than a meaningful discussion.

A relationship between a high-ranking adviser to the president and the terrorist who had helped him to engineer a war.

Mr. Rivera was a high-ranking adviser to the 2004 Kerry-Edwards presidential campaign.

Indeed, most of the Emirs in norther Nigeria have a "Waziri", who is usually a high-ranking adviser.