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They gave him medals, higher and higher ranks, horses, automobiles, privileges, everything.''
Even in Russia, leaders have risen through the ranks of party or state hierarchies.
The Free Syrian Army is also in Turkey, its ranks beefed up by the recent defection of seven generals.
This time, the AKP acted on its own and was barely able to garner from its own ranks the requisite majority for a referendum.
If growth does not pick up, the ranks of the unemployed and underemployed will swell, increasing the size of the pool from which extremist groups find fresh recruits.
America ranks fifth according to HDI, below Norway, Australia, Switzerland, and the Netherlands.
In the past, corruption was usually said to be located within the ranks of public servants, and this was used as a partial justification for privatization, especially in developing countries.
So-called “evidence-based medicine” entails a hierarchy of empirical proof that ranks medical studies according to their quality.
It ranks among the great ironies of history that these two brilliant men, credited with saving millions from starvation, are also infamous for other work done later: Haber, a German Jew, was a central force in developing poison gas in World War I (and also performed research that led to the Zyklon B poison gas later used in concentration camps);Bosch, an ardent anti-Nazi, founded the giant chemical company I.G.
The National Health Service and the British Medical Association have begun retraining refugee doctors, including many from Syria and Afghanistan, to fill the ranks of depleted clinics in UK.
To be sure, there were certainly no Nelson Mandelas among the ranks of Iraq’s admittedly clumsy and often reckless Shia leadership.
Indeed, her first brief imprisonment in 2001 furnished her with political capital and pushed her into the democratic opposition’s front ranks.
Specifically, the term BRIC was coined more than a decade ago by then-Goldman Sachs analyst Jim O’Neill, who did not initially count South Africa among the ranks of the major emerging economies.
Its true nature and extent are to be found in the ranks of civil society.
The latest Forbes list of America’s wealthiest individuals showed that last year’s highest nine earners, whose ranks include New York City’s mayor, Michael Bloomberg, managed to increase their wealth by $5-9 billion last year.
Today it ranks in the middle of the OECD countries.
Most other cultivating and artisan castes, enjoying similar ritual ranks as the financially more successful group, occupied much lower economic positions, which resulted in an amazing degree of heterogeneity among backward castes.
America’s president is captive to the country’s labor unions, who buy the false narrative that trade with poor countries is increasing the ranks of the poor in the US by driving down wages.
How Universities Can Soften the Brexit BlowLONDON – The United Kingdom ranks around 22nd among countries in terms of population.
In terms of wealth – that is, GDP adjusted for population – it ranks anywhere from 22nd to 30th.
And two recent studies commissioned by Standard Chartered Bank indicate that the growing ranks of the affluent view education as a top priority.
Such an outcome could split the rebels’ ranks and risks plunging Libya into renewed violence at the very moment that hostilities should have ended.
The Global Hunger Index, published by the International Food Policy Research Institute, ranks India 65th among 88 vulnerable countries, below both Pakistan and Nepal.
Moreover, as rapid economic growth fuels a surge in the ranks of India’s upper and middle classes, many families are displaying their newly acquired affluence with lavish feasts at their children’s weddings.
But they are not producing as many women managers in the private sector as the United States is, much less at the top ranks.
China could join these countries’ ranks by 2049 if its economy grows by at least 1.7 percentage points more than the US economy every year, starting now.
After all, economic growth remains China’s best hope to keep the regime afloat, and it is the main criterion for officials’ promotion through the ranks.
In this national crisis, Mexico’s people have closed ranks, collaborated, and showed that they are capable of working together to achieve common goals in the public interest.
A group like ISIS relies on its ability to attract young people to join its ranks, by offering frustrated individuals an ideologically charged sense of purpose.
Their sponsors must change their tactics, building their ranks and plotting attacks underground.
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