Another very strong senior secretary who had apparently left an abusive husband years before, after fears she would not survive another weekend of violence.

The senior secretary had volunteered to work on Saturday, and she was making the changes on the computer when the telephone rang.

Afterwards he became senior secretary of the Presidential Office until his death in 2001.

In next September, he was promoted to be senior secretary of the same Ministry.

My father is a senior secretary with the embassy in Lima.

The Department is headed by a minister, supported by a senior secretary.

"Doctor, this is the President's office," one of the senior secretaries said.

Her senior private secretary resigned just before Christmas and the advisor was only two months into a two-year secondment.

Muna Ahmed, the senior secretary, joined her in the kitchen for supper later that evening.

She had made the decision to accept the job as senior secretary to the Ambassador, and to accompany him back to Iraq.