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The artists on the street will swell the ranks of the unemployed.
And we would bring them into the army, and the first thing we would do is to put them in an environment of structure, put them in ranks, make them all wear the same clothes, cut all their hair off so they look alike, make sure that they are standing in ranks.
Then they could get promoted through four increasingly elite ranks: fuke [deputy section manager], ke [section manager], fuchu [deputy division manager], and chu [division manger].
After the ju levels, the best few move further up several more ranks, and eventually make it to the Central Committee.
Transparency International ranks China between 70 and 80 in recent years among 170 countries, and it's been moving up.
And so the FBI, under the leadership of an attorney general who is African-American and a president of the United States who is African-American, have adopted the Tea Party definition of the crisis, in which it is the first virgin crisis in history, conceived without sin in the executive ranks.
In countless surveys, the tobacco industry ranks as the world's least reputable industry.
Finland ranks pretty much the same.
Some great people have come up through our ranks.
Save the Children ranks Cuba the best country in Latin America to become a mother.
You have to become a party member and slowly start working up the ranks until maybe, one day, you'll get to sit at a table where a decision is being made.
Her school actually ranks among the best public schools in the country, and it was going to be demolished by the Rio de Janeiro state government to build, I kid you not, a parking lot for the World Cup right before the event happened.
But it turns out that love is very strictly forbidden in the lower ranks of the guerrilla, so their romance was discovered and they were separated.
The problem is that it was working in the lower ranks of the guerrilla.
Matt Kenyon: I'd just finished a project that dealt with the US Coalition side of the war and it was a black armband that was called the "Improvised Empathetic Device" which accumulated, in real time, the names, ranks, cause of death and location of US service members who had died overseas, and each time the Department of Defense or CENTCOM released their data, it would stab me in the arm.
Why is it that when I look at the Doing Business index ranking of the World Bank, that ranks every country in the world in terms of how easy or hard it is to start a company, you tell me why African countries, all 50 of them, are basically at the bottom of that list?
The U.S. News & World Report ranks colleges just as the consumer report rates washing machines.
It was torn up in a wastepaper basket, but when they pieced it back together, they discovered that someone in their ranks had been selling military secrets to Germany.
But machines will shrink their ranks and make these jobs harder to come by.
That has sent the professional class of publishing down into the ranks of mass amateurization.
And stoicism has spread like wildfire in the top of the NFL ranks as a means of mental toughness training in the last few years.
As news of the rebellion spread, its ranks swelled with escaped slaves, deserting soldiers, and hungry peasants.
Roman reinforcements were returning from the Pontic wars, and the rebels’ ranks and spirits were broken.
Hans rose through the ranks and oversaw the training and indoctrination of other young people.
Christophe quickly rose through the ranks, proving himself the equal of more experienced generals.
Their staggering productivity ranks fisheries with farming as a mainstay of food production for humanity.
Although each worker only lives for roughly 3 weeks, the queen’s continuous egg-laying swells their ranks.
It's probably as unlikely that you would nowadays become as rich and famous as Bill Gates, as it was unlikely in the 17th century that you would accede to the ranks of the French aristocracy.
We award players ranks on the servers based on the attributes they exhibit, such as the "Buddy" rank for people who are friendly towards others, and "Junior Helper" for people that are helpful towards others.
Now, in order to do this, my architecture and design friends, especially my fellow white guys, we must simultaneously and significantly diversify our ranks.
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