highest-ranking

One salient example was Ilyas Kashmiri, one of the highest-ranking al Qaeda commanders.

If so, he would be the highest ranking Russian sanctioned thus far under the law.

Abu Ghaithm, who has pled not guilty, is the highest-ranking al-Qaida figure to face trial in the U.S. since the 2001 attacks.

On 9/11, he was the highest-ranking Fed official in the country.

The most visible and highest ranking Jewish member of the Senate, he was also the most aggressively hawkish on Israeli matters.

These latter report to the "commandant of cadets," who is, next to the superintendent, the highest ranking officer on the post.

The commodore of a squadron was the highest ranking officer and he might be lower than a captain.

We'll make you the highest ranking sergeant that ever made a private's life miserable.

The highest ranking officer sits in the stern and goes into the boat last.

We had a major in our barracks and the highest ranking officer in the camp was a colonel.