They'd been moving for nearly an hour when Hikmal halted the column to converse with two of his closest lieutenants.

He held the position until his election in 2005, and was well known as one of Gordon Brown's closest lieutenants.

Mr. Deng was one of his closest lieutenants.

There, he became a convert to Communism and met some of the men who would be his closest lieutenants in the Khmer Rouge.

He was deprived also of the support of his seven closest lieutenants.

She had spent most of her 25-year career as Mr. Freston's closest lieutenant.

He was one of Gotti's closest lieutenants.

Pandit is understood to have told his closest lieutenants that "everything is on the table".

In fact, he calculated, the loss of my closest lieutenant will make any victory much more clearly mine.

Paris has been a training ground for some of Mr. Chirac's closest lieutenants.