Simmons helped identify one of the highest-ranking Cuban spies in recent history, Ana Belen Montes who worked at the Defense Intelligence Agency.

VOA: standard.2009.06.06

The White House Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the executive office of the president of the United States.

白宫办公厅主任,是美国总统的,行政办公室当中,职位最高的人员。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

He was a president who understood clearly what his ranking of priorities were.

他还是个很清楚,他的首要任务顺序排列的,这样一个总统。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Israel said it did not intend to embarrass Biden, the highest-ranking Obama administration official to visit the region.

VOA: standard.2010.03.11

Did you know that of people who take positive psychology, 75% of you are officers of club, 35% of you are the highest ranking officers of club, which means that you think there are about 2000 clubs at Harvard, you are in club of three, and you happen to be the president.

你不知不知道选了积极心理学的人中，有75%的人是俱乐部的干部，35%是俱乐部的高层干部，这意味着，你认为哈佛有大约2000个俱乐部，你在一个只有3个人的俱乐部里，又恰好是主席。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

New York Congressman Peter King, the ranking Republican on the Homeland Security Committee, was briefed by intelligence officials shortly after the plane landed.

VOA: standard.2009.12.26

The Office of the White House Chief of Staff is the highest office, and the Chief of Staff is the highest ranking member of the executive office of the president of the United States.

白宫办公厅是,最高级别的政府机关，而办公厅主任是,美国总统行政办公室,级别最高的官员。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Howard McKeon,ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Committee, questioned why, if the facility was designed for civilian purposes, Iran concealed its existence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25

But even then, that may not be enough."-- Because once you don't get tenure in one place, you don't go up in terms of the ranking of the school-- you very often would get tenure but elsewhere, school that is not considered as good as the one where you were rejected.

即使到了那时，可能也不够-,如果在一所学校无法获得终身职位，就没有可能在更高学府取得-,经常是在别的院校获得，那些比拒绝你的学院,差一等的院校。

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

Last month, Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs Bisa Williams became the highest-ranking U.S.official to visit Cuba in several years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.28

Ranking Republican member, Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama, accused the Obama administration of not have having a well-conceived plan for the country's banks.

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

In Transparency International's just-released 2009 survey of world corruption, Afghanistan was only one step above the bottom rung,ranking 179th out of 180 countries surveyed.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

Thein Sein is the highest ranking Burmese official to attend the General Assembly in 14 years.

VOA: standard.2009.09.29

"Everyone is equal before the law." Selebi is one of the highest ranking officials in South Africa to be convicted of misuse of office.

VOA: standard.2010.08.03

If proved,that would make him the lowest-ranking person to go on trial for Nazi war crimes.

VOA: standard.2009.11.30

Brossel says if the environment for media does not improve quickly Thailand's ranking will drop further.

VOA: standard.2010.07.06

Opponents of the president's plan expressed outrage at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Thursday, led by ranking member, Republican Senator John McCain of Arizona.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

There have even been high-ranking government officials arrested for taking bribes from drug traffickers.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

Joseph Nye is an influential foreign policy expert and former high-ranking Clinton administration official.

VOA: standard.2009.11.03

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday said he hopes the flurry of visits by high-ranking U.S.officials will help re-launch the peace negotiations as soon as possible.

VOA: standard.2009.10.30

Writer and journalist Mark Danner is not saying - how the 2007 International Committee of the Red Cross document,meant only for high-ranking Bush administration officials, came into his possession.

VOA: standard.2009.03.23

McCain,the Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, was asked whether the timeline for withdrawing U.S.combat forces from Iraq within the next year might need to be revised in the wake of the latest attacks.

VOA: standard.2009.10.26

The Obama administration has made no move to prosecute former high ranking Bush administration officials for torture, but has left open the possibility of charging anyone who exceeded Bush-era guidelines on the treatment of terror suspects.

VOA: standard.2009.08.24

The Pakistan aid bill, co-sponsored by Democrat Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry and ranking Republican Richard Lugar, is aimed at regularizing a civilian aid relationship that has fluctuated over the years depending on events in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Among several members of Congress at the event was the ranking Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who stressed the fact that an estimated 80 percent of trafficking victims are women and half are children.

VOA: standard.2009.06.16

Now that the decision has been made to move forward with what the review called an "integral" part of U.S.defenses, the second ranking U.S.military officer, General James Cartwright, says the American military commands will spend some time figuring out how to use the various aspects of the system in their regions.

VOA: standard.2010.03.26

Ileana Ros Lehtinen is the ranking committee Republican "It should be clear that unless we impose the maximum pressure on Iran, and this bill is a major step forward in that direction, the regime will continue its march toward acquiring nuclear weapons, dominating the Persian Gulf, and expanding its network of radical militants around the world,".

VOA: standard.2009.10.28