8 sentences with 'ranks'
Example sentences and phrases with the word ranks and other words derived from it.
• « Over 20 years, Ms. Miller rose through the ranks from assembly line to management at the poultry processing company. »
• « The monasteries and convents were not alone in their wealth. The upper ranks of the Church - bishops, archbishops, cardinals and the popes themselves - were almost exclusively from the European nobility. »
• « The lower-ranking ecclesiastics were, in turn, commoners, often drawn from the ranks of the very peasants they served from one of the small parish churches that dotted the landscape. »
• « Increasingly, Suleiman staffed the highest ranks of both the army and the state bureaucracy with janissaries, boys taken from Christian lands who were raised to be elite soldiers and officers. »
• « The rituals were carefully organised not only to represent deference to Louis XIV, but to emphasise the hierarchy of ranks among the nobles themselves, undermining their unity and forcing them to discuss their favour. »
• « Most absolutist states created "tables of ranks" that specified exactly where the nobles stood among themselves, as well as the monarch and the "princes of blood". »
• « The highest ranks of the clergy came from noble families, so the church represented no checks and balances. »
• « Napoleon's family was not wealthy, but he had a legitimate noble title recognised by the French state, which meant that he was eligible to join the ranks of noble monopolies such as the officer corps of the French army. »