But individual government officials, high and low, tell a different story.
I myself will go to the high officials with you.
A few high officials will use up most of the money.
He is almost certain to step down next March along with several other high officials.
"Even high officials tell us if the Government doesn't change, nothing will get done."
Now you have the name of a high official in the company.
She knew what it was like to have a close personal relationship with a very high government official.
These, I thought, might be officers of the army or high officials.
Why do the highest officials always seem to know less than anyone else?
I fear the Order is making offers to high officials.
Most of its high-ranking officials have moved on to new jobs.
The woman is of low class and the man, a high-ranking government official.
In the Soviet period, it was the home of many high-ranking government officials.
For the most part they were high-ranking officials from the armed forces.
"The situation is very different from what would have been even two years ago," a high-ranking official said.
Other high-ranking officials in the front office have asked friends for advice.
It's available only to high-ranking government officials and their immediate families.
In at least one case, a high-ranking foreign official is under investigation, they said.
One other thing is certain, said a high-ranking official at a major investment bank.
High-ranking officials, it appears, were often the last to know.
"Very high-level officials in the Administration are talking to him."
It was said that among the 75 were many future high-level officials.
Some high-level Soviet officials were present and they obviously didn't know what happened or why.
Students in the program have the opportunity to meet high-level Israeli officials.
He is indeed a high-level official in the criminal justice system.
For technical reasons, other high-level officials were not involved in the case.
Your sort of business means nothing among these high-level officials.
It is the first time that such an indictment of a high-level official has been made public.
This week, the first high-level official lost his job in the fallout from the case.
It is also the first time such high-level officials of the two countries have met with the public here in Westchester.
About six months ago a high-ranking officer came to the office.
These men, like him, were all former high-ranking military officers.
Though a high-ranking officer, he leads from the front with the men.
He didn't try to take credit for it himself, as a lot of high-ranking officers might have done.
As a result, a high-ranking officer said, the department did not respond to thousands of calls last year.
"We think the high-ranking officers understand why this has to be done," he said.
She wondered if he was a high-ranking officer or something like that.
Virtually all high-ranking officers in the military were party members.
He is a high-ranking officer in the police and has a no nonsense policy at home.
The 188th and 1st of the 187th were pinned down along with several high-ranking officers.
Both of his parents are high military officers by profession.
There was no higher officer to whom I could appeal.
"I've also seen that not all our higher officers are everything they might be."
He is one of the few high officers in that army not from Virginia.
Their eyes were cold now, but he had no friends among these high officers.
"The most important job we've ever done," one of the high officers told him.
Only those who were high officers in the company already.
While higher officers were weighing the matter, he had left the service.
Three of our higher officers had been in the regular army.
This letter, when opened, was found to be from some high officer.
Before they had covered another dek, a tall officer in.
The tall first officer leaned back again, hands clasped behind his head.
The same tall officer answered, the guy who'd been at the crime scene.
He extended a hand, then introduced the tall officer behind him.
The tall first officer strode from the ready room onto the bridge.
The tall young officer gazed down at him for a moment.
The tall officer to whom the wizard spoke threw his hands up.
The clear leader of the group was a tall, older officer named Plactus.
The tall first officer regarded the small world on the main viewer.
The tall officer staggered back with blood pouring from his mouth.
But the old apparatus, Politburo members, top-ranking officials, are standing very close to him.
"The bottom line is we don't know the figures," a top-ranking official of the United Nations refugee agency said.
A former top-ranking postal official and several public relations executives were given prison sentences for their roles in the scheme.
"She was tyrannical," said a top-ranking female official who asked to remain unidentified.
It was granted after a review by top-ranking officials of the order, which Father Ritter joined as a young priest more than 40 years ago.
On the other side, many top-ranking and mid-level army officials have close links to paramilitary groups, which also control drug-growing areas.
But I am familiar with the statement and it was made by one of the top-ranking officials of that organization.
Educated guesses could be made, and they were made; but nobody outside the closed-in area save a very few top-ranking officials had any real knowledge.
That's why top-ranking officials who leave government make a ton of money.