Example sentences of "from [prep] [art] ranks " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grievances which the commons presented were not just their own but were shared by some amongst the magnates , and it is doubtful whether the commons ' will could have prevailed without this support from amongst the ranks of the nobility . |
| 2 | ALTHOUGH the British government would deny ‘ grooming ’ a candidate from within the ranks of its Hong Kong civil service for the job of chief executive after transition in 1997 , it has given John Chan , 46 , a series of fast-track official posts which make him a credible contender for the job . |
| 3 | The burgeoning of leftist idealism in the 1970s was , however , opposed from within the ranks of the left from the start . |
| 4 | Although this is certainly borne out by the example of Nizan himself who experienced a degree of mistrust from within the ranks of the PCF as a consequence of his petty bourgeois class origins and schooling , ultimately this is of secondary importance compared to Nizan 's overriding reason for being in the communist party in the first place . |
| 5 | up to ten knowledgeable people are selected from within the ranks of CPRW to form a Tourism Working Party ; |
| 6 | Goldthorpe argues that in the British case the effects have been strikingly asymmetrical : the expanding upper occupational strata show a low ‘ demographic homogeneity ’ ( i.e. a low proportion of members whose fathers were members of the same stratum or class ) , while the manual wage-earning classes , dwindling in size , show a very high level of demographic homogeneity : there has been little pressure for recruitment of manual workers from beyond the ranks of existing manual workers ' families . |
| 7 | They were to be elected by peasants from among the ranks of the gentry in order to defend peasant interests in the wake of the emancipation . |