0 Someone who is high up in an organization has an important position in it.
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For 186 individuals, mainly high-up lianas mingled with the canopy foliage, sampling was not possible because no foliage was obtainable.
I think that some high-up person in politics actually said that he regarded the modern age as the most civilised age we have ever had.
It is, therefore, a pleasure for me to come into contact with another high-up member of a trade union.
He was a very responsible and high-up man.
How wise he was to say that we, the railwaymen, and even the high-up railwaymen, are still human beings with distinctly individual preferences at times.
One conclusion that the study made was that he must have been a pretty high-up member in that society because the burial was very elaborate.
The other objections, which are all concentrated round the words "singled out ", are that some of the high-ups were not called.
There has been a good deal of criticism among people in my constituency about the way in which visits by high-ups to the works have been conducted in recent times.