Example sentences of "within [art] ranks " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the ranks of the clergy and religious orders themselves , there was a far from complete , centralized structure , but rather a dual one . |
| 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 | Her son had better stay within the ranks , she thinks . |
| 4 | This deliberately throwaway remark hints at the paranoia within the ranks of Rough Trade where The Smiths are the only band of stature that they had managed to retain . |
| 5 | Within the ranks of the music press , there seemed to be a genuine grief at the split and the band 's loyal followers responded accordingly , filling the letter pages with tearful , doleful sentiment . |
| 6 | In the early postwar years potentially damaging splits within the ranks of the Labour Party in West Ham forced by the war were healed , and the party embarked on a campaign to consolidate power around a unified populist programme of reform . |
| 7 | Included within the ranks of those who ‘ gadded to sermons ’ and aspired to a higher spiritual plain were peers , gentlemen , clothworkers , cobblers , and humble villagers ; according to the Jesuit William Weston , Puritan meetings on the Isle of Ely were attended by ‘ men , women , girls , rustics , labourers , and idiots ’ . |
| 8 | Within the ranks of those Hidden Masters exists a secret , innermost conclave founded in recent decades by the Emperor himself , answerable to no-one else , and now here in session . |
| 9 | The origins of jawed vertebrates ( gnathostomes ) lie somewhere within the ranks of long-extinct jawless fishes , represented today as the lampreys and hagfishes . |
| 10 | The burgeoning of leftist idealism in the 1970s was , however , opposed from within the ranks of the left from the start . |
| 11 | Indeed , anti-semitic behaviour had been incipient within the ranks of the BUF from the outset and included elements first recruited from the New Party . |
| 12 | Within the ranks of the nobility , the king 's youngest sons in particular benefited from the fall of the courtiers : Edmund Langley was appointed Constable of Dover Castle , an office previously held by Latimer , while Woodstock was granted the office of Constable of England , which was hereditary in the Bohun family but had been delegated when necessary to other lords after the death of the last Earl of Hereford , Woodstock 's father-in-law . |
| 13 | When the idea of a Royal Commission was in circulation , lawyers within the ranks of the Government , notably Sam Silkin , the Attorney General and one of the few front-benchers on either side to have taken a close interest in penal reform , and Alex Lyon , a Minister of State at the Home Office , pressed for the opportunity to be grasped to make an authoritative assessment of the arguments for a public prosecution service independent of the police . |
| 14 | A born again green within the ranks of the Tory party , he was not looked upon with anything other than derision . |
| 15 | The existential problems of isolation , uncertainty and disorientation that Nizan encounters initially in his family situation and subsequently in the French schooling system are ultimately resolved within the ranks of revolutionary political party . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was this same moral , ethical dimension which finally , after September 1939 , made it impossible for Nizan to remain working within the ranks of that same party . |
| 18 | Given the party 's increasingly isolated situation , given its general lack of prestigious cultural figures , it is not surprising that by 1928 Barbusse had come to enjoy a particularly favoured position within the ranks of the PCF itself . |
| 19 | This close liaison with the NID was obviously liable to be misunderstood within the ranks of the BDDA so that is not surprising to find the BDDA 's annual report for 1925 explaining that : The executive committee wish it to be clearly understood that the NID is not antagonistic but rather complementary to our own Association . |
| 20 | He had been one of the most respected and admired deaf men of his time , and he was missed not only within the ranks of the BDDA but also of the NID , on whose executive committee he had served since its reorganisation in 1924 . |
| 21 | up to ten knowledgeable people are selected from within the ranks of CPRW to form a Tourism Working Party ; |
| 22 | A master of deceit , he learned how to sow distrust and dissent within the ranks of his enemies . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the view has prevailed within the Government , and also within the ranks and higher commands of all the Opposition parties , that Britain 's future would be assured by linking herself to the fortunes of another country . |
| 24 | The biggest change has come within the ranks of the SDLP where Martin Bradley , Mark Durkan , Kathleen McCloskey , Margaret McCartney and Wilfred White have all been elected for the first time and Pat Ramsey makes a return to the Council chamber having reclaimed the seat he lost in 1989 . |
| 25 | However , internal feuds and a breakdown of discipline within the ranks of the Communist Party of the Philippines-Marxist Leninist ( CPP-ML ) , which led to a bloody purge of its supporters , seriously affected morale . |
| 26 | Several attempts were made within the ranks of the French right to establish a united movement which would appeal to the electorate . |
| 27 | In 1983 the offices of Al-Fatah had been closed and its leader , PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat , was expelled from Damascus , following Syria 's backing of a mutiny against Arafat within the ranks of his own faction [ see p. 32458 ] . |
| 28 | Lord Archer occupied an equivocal place within the ranks of the Conservative Party . |
| 29 | If there was a redistributive aspect to funding of the national debt and its associated taxation , it was largely one which operated within the ranks of the better-off . |
| 30 | We can only assume that it intends to gain acceptability and legitimacy within the ranks of the sold-out lackeys of the Labour Party , rather than working to organise the most exploited sections of ordinary people — women . |