Position in a hierarchy

Usage examples of ranking.

The challenge, drawn up in strict accordance with the old military code of honor by General Beck himself, was given to General von Rundstedt, as the senior ranking Army officer, to deliver to the head of the S.

The Russians could not help noting that whereas the British had sent the Chief of the Imperial General Staff, General Sir Edmund Ironside, to Warsaw in July for military talks with the Polish General Staff, they did not consider sending this ranking British officer to Moscow.

Specifically, he proposed that in that case the ranking generals should all resign at once.

These additional penalties were assessed at a grotesque meeting of a dozen German cabinet ministers and ranking officials presided over by the corpulent Field Marshal on November 12, a partial stenographic record of which survives.

To the Federalists, the bill was a flagrant attempt to diminish the power of the President to the benefit of the Senate, and they adamantly objected, arguing that the removal of ranking officials in the executive branch must be at the sole discretion of the President.

The hell of it is that as they march him out in the smelly fatigues and the squelching boondockers they will call him Sir and they will treat him with the courtesy appropriate to a ranking officer even though he no longer deserves it.

But I am going to execute you as the ranking officer of this unit of the Venetian Corfiote Army.

Many men like Sher Dil, high ranking regular army officers, were not so sure and said so.

Much more had occurred regarding the strange object before Curley - now given status as Druid, a ranking number of the druidical hierarchy - gained permission to contact his long-separated companions.

Thirdly, it is intrinsically absurd to suppose that an institution of gross immorality and cruelty could have flourished in the most polite and refined Greek nation, as the Eleusinian Mysteries did for over eighteen hundred years, ranking among its members a vast majority of both sexes, of all classes, of all ages, and constantly celebrating its rites before immense audiences of them all.

In a ranking, vegetables would come out on top, with fruits coming in second and grains a distant third.

Noel Hinners, Associate Deputy Administrator, the third highest ranking official at NASA.

If Nozawa fans had the same ranking as judoka, Tabuchi would be a black-belt tenth dan, undefeated for his entire career.

Sometimes masters do not appoint a first girl in order that the lower ranking girls will strive ever more desperately to please them, to become favorites, and thus to be to some extent more protected.

Iwakura Mission was the presence on it of so many ranking officials, who obviously felt that visiting the West at this time warranted their leaving Japan only three years after the convulsion that gave birth to the Meiji government.