Example sentences of "into the ranks " in BNC.
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1 | They have the power to send the rest of us into the ranks of the army , if they like , or into prison or the colonies . |
2 | But assuming Collor 's Brazil makes it into the ranks of the developed world , it will do so at the lowest level of eligibility , on a par with the East European countries . |
3 | There are occasional signs of attempts by Downing Street to infiltrate a new type of person into the ranks of the lieutenancy . |
4 | The better off , or more fortunate , merged into the ranks of the privileged clergy ; the poorer were sons of serfs . |
5 | A Ramsay ! ’ he led straight into the ranks of stationary horses . |
6 | Now their commander must dragoon several tech or merchant gangs from the Oberon spire into the ranks . |
7 | But woman-centred psychology 's commitment to bringing women into the ranks of psychologists as emblems of femininity has a number of drawbacks . |
8 | Alternatively , one could ask whether the working class suffer social closure inasmuch as its members find upward mobility into the ranks of the middle class exceptionally difficult . |
9 | He was pressed into the ranks of the northern army , ‘ whereby he might somewhat be instructed of the difference between the sitting quietly in his house , and the travail and danger which others daily do sustain' . |
10 | After the election , though , the NDP faded into the ranks of the coalition majority , having neither roots nor party organization of their own , and Unionist efforts were carried on instead through a Labour wing in their own party . |
11 | Being part of the secondary market , however , carries a substantial risk of being pushed back into unemployment , and possibly into the ranks of the underclass . |
12 | Although he sees some decline in the numbers of the petty bourgeoisie ( the small property owners ) due to competition from large companies , he argues that they enter white-collar or skilled manual trades rather than being depressed into the ranks of unskilled manual workers . |
13 | In the 1990s some of these will move into the ranks of successful barristers from whom judicial appointments are made . |
14 | Individuals from pressure groups , or at least representing specific interests , secure entry into the ranks of those who exercise power by virtue not only of expertise but also of personal qualities , such as persistence and charm , which enable them to persuade that they have something to contribute to public decision making . |
15 | These slaves could be admitted into the ranks of the sultan 's ‘ New Troops ’ — the yeniçeri or janissaries . |
16 | The industrial revolution of the eighteenth century brought England into the ranks of major European powers , and although the English were somewhat detached from the affairs of the continent , and more concerned with imperial expansion overseas , the events of the French Revolution and the wars with Napoleonic France forced them to play an ever increasing role in Europe . |
17 | This instructive dissonance between a non-reflective , depoliticised father recruited into the ranks of the petty bourgeoisie in the late nineteenth century , and an increasingly critical and politicised son rebelling against the alienation of petty-bourgeois existence in the early twentieth century captures precisely the ideological climate of the period leading to the events of February 1934 . |
18 | Andreeva went on to complain of historical plays , such as those of Mikhail Shatrov , which were arbitrary in their interpretation and close to the views that had been put forward by Lenin 's opponents , and she deplored the obsessive interest in Stalin among many writers , obscuring the fact that his was a complex and transitional period in which industrialisation , collectivisation and a cultural revolution had brought the USSR into the ranks of the great powers . |
19 | Not before time , either , as Cud — once unseeded losers around the indie table — have steamed their way into the ranks . |
20 | He renounced his apprenticeship in 1858 and resolved to follow his eldest brother into the ranks of the Geological Survey . |
21 | His second son succeeded him as a clothier , his eldest son , Sir James , having already moved into the ranks of the landed gentry . |
22 | Edmund rode with slashing spurs and flailing sword into the ranks of the mutinous archers , his knights hard after him . |
23 | ‘ If it goes as we expect , then your task , when they are close enough , is to split me a way into the ranks of the two central battles of pikemen . ’ |
24 | " Busy people are never too busy to do what they know to be important " was the challenging comment that brought me under his spell and a bit later into the ranks of his followers . |
25 | According to the Prime Minister , Gen. Hau Pei-tsun , it would lead Taiwan into the ranks of the world 's top 20 countries in terms of per capita income by the year 2000 . |
26 | Not before time , either , as Cud — once unseeded losers around the indie table — have steamed their way into the ranks . |
27 | It was not only that enclosures forced some small-holders into the ranks of the landless and into wage-dependency for the first time ; it was also the case that many who had been able partly to support themselves from small-holdings supplemented by access to common grazing for a beast or two lost that element of independence . |
28 | He swiftly integrated the 300,000 or so men of the Resistance army ( the FFI ) into the ranks of the regular army and disbanded a Resistance-run paramilitary force known as the milices patriotiques . |
29 | In Germany even the most ‘ respectable ’ workers were pressed into the ranks of the proletariat by the distance which separated them from the bourgeoisie , and the strength of intermediate classes . |
30 | J. R. Campbell directed revolutionary comrades in the ILP as follows ; Fight for a revolutionary policy and work with the Communist Party to carry out that policy ; work for coming over en masse into the ranks of the Communist Party . |