One possible punishment would be to force him to retire at a lesser rank, which would deprive him of some benefits, an official said.
Following the campaign against the Bulgarians, in which Harald again served with distinction, he received the rank while at Mosynopolis of spatharokandidatos, identified by DeVries as a promotion to the possibly third highest Byzantine rank, but by Mikhail Bibikov as a lesser rank than protospatharios that was ordinarily awarded to foreign allies to the emperor.
Both cases imply that any parent to leaves of subtree i in a resolving tree has a lesser rank than the rank of node k.
Bryant, naturally, assigned the Nets' backcourt a slightly lesser ranking.
The researchers played a recording of a dominant female's threatening grunt to a lesser-ranking female who had recently either fought or groomed with the dominant female.
(Folk stories might feature an emperor or lord and a lover of lesser rank).
It is frustrating to be downgraded to a lesser elite rank, said Tim Winship, the editor of Frequentflier.com, a consumer Web site for people who belong to these programs.
And virtually every major American trading partner places a cabinet-level official in charge of trade talks -- many combine the job with foreign minister -- raising the question of whether they would negotiate with an American of lesser rank.
By the thirteenth century there are have sources that allow greater stratification in society to be seen, with layers including the king and a small elite of mormaers above lesser ranks of freemen and what was probably a large group of serfs, particularly in central Scotland.
She said the top trade officials of America's leading economic partners would be "dumbfounded" if asked to negotiate with a United States official who held lesser rank, especially because the United States is often viewed as the power most eager to expand trade between nations.
Pastorino da Siena produced a long series of portraits of sitters of lesser rank, cast in lead without reverse type.
