Yuwen Hu's sons, brothers, and key associates were all executed.

On the same day, a grand procession was held for the executions of the chancellors and the key associates of Li Xun.

She'd researched the company he'd founded, knew the names of his key associates, and had memorized the acquisitions he'd made.

The men, all convicted as top leaders and key associates of the Mafia's ruling "commission," will serve prison terms of 40 to 100 years.

My management style also makes it essential that I find a strong, extremely capable, independent person to serve as my key associate; in this case, the head coach.

A key associate said this image was likely to suffer.

In the other, the writers allege, he was an integral part of organized crime's money-laundering schemes and a key associate of a powerful Mafia family.

He then executed Yuwen and several of his key associates.

Criticism too had begun to come from within the militant movement, where key former associates spoke of how Bin Laden's thinking, tactics and strategy were all wrong.

Those two would be the key associates of Balašević in the following years.