Highest in rank

Usage examples of senior.

The challenge, drawn up in strict accordance with the old military code of honor by General Beck himself, was given to General von Rundstedt, as the senior ranking Army officer, to deliver to the head of the S.

Mary Harris, for example, found her work as a senior accountant absorbing, part of the reason she was one of the most dedicated accounting employees at her firm.

Two years later, the Senior Advisory Group, a group of Senior black NSA employees, examined the barriers faced by African American applicants and employees in hiring, promotion, and career development.

Smiling amputees with their wooden body parts in their laps, senior citizens standing on their heads: seeing what people wanted pictures of amazed me.

Now Crowder alerted senior intelligence officers that the long anticipated oilfield fires had begun.

Her people heard over the loud--speakers the voices of the senior pilots assigning targets, the orders to attack and to withdraw and the shouts, curses and sobs of men delivering death in the face of death.

Benno Cohen of the ZVfD had been appointed assistant to their director, conductor Kurt Singer, but that was not enough: the performers were still really cultural assimilationists, and in October 1935 Kareski, who had nothing to do with the arts, was appointed to a more senior position than Singer, and Cohen was dismissed.

Azure, the library, the physicians, and the other senior members of the Associative might be thousands of years old.

Caesar in Gaul, he had been a raw political appointee, very much dependent on his senior centurion.

Less inured to tough setbacks, too riled to accept the wormwood of defeat, the senior enchantress paced the shed in mincing steps and balked tension.

Their raucous core of senior employees had been a barnstorming crew of 1960s Californians, many of them markedly less than happy with the new button-down multimillion dollar regime at Apple.

Every officer aboard the Barracuda was requested either by Captain Crawton or by some other senior officer aboard the submarine.

Cabinet ministers and diplomatic liaisons, senior advisers and planetary rulers, roused from sleep, called away from other duties, torn away from their private business to gather in front of monitors on every planet from Bespin to Byss.

Master Sean, and sent Captain Broun and Senior Captain Delgardie after the others.

The Senior Tutor went down to the Boathouse to coach the first boat, the Dean slept until teatime, and the Bursar spent the afternoon doodling in his office wondering if he had been wise to tell Sir Godber about the endowment subscriptions.