The phrase "attack on rank" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing criticism or challenges to someone's position or status, particularly in hierarchical settings.
Example: "The recent article was seen as an attack on rank, questioning the authority of senior management."
Alternatives: "assault on status" or "challenge to position".
In the past, Al Qaeda's Yemen-based branch — eager to build its popularity with Yemenis — has tried to avoid deadly attacks on rank-and-file soldiers, and has used frequent online posts to urge them to defect.
Already we're seeing the beginnings of the attack on Page Rank, the canonization of realtime media, and the roots of a new authority model.
Presence of the most preferred host did not increase attack on lower ranked hosts.
Indeed, an attack on one's character or social rank is likely to provoke anger and, in many cases, a wish for revenge.
When that curtain rises on Terry Johnson's gag-packed Carry On pastiche Cleo, Camping, Emmanuelle and Dick, we are treated to mock credits, beginning with the full-bodied attack on the trademark Rank gong, followed by a juddering succession of garish celluloid images that abruptly melts in flames.
A mistake that ends the game immediately with the attack on the seventh rank.
The final plan envisions miles of underground highways, higher center-city parking fees, vastly expanded subway and bicycle networks, and a lattice of new downtown streets — as well as a cap on new vehicle registrations — in an attack on traffic that ranks among the world's worst.
There has long been an element of tit-for-tat in the Taliban attacks on lesser-ranking, and thus lesser-protected, government officials: In the past several years American and NATO forces have stepped up night raids on the homes not just of senior Taliban commanders, but also of those suspected of being Taliban fighters and lower-ranking commanders.
However, a conventional large-scale attack on the UK is ranked only in "Tier 3" of possible dangers, alongside disruption to oil and gas supplies, a serious accident at a nuclear power station, an attack on a Nato ally and interruptions to food supplies.
The Daily Mail, rather than attack Cameron for the delay, launches a front page attack on actors (aka "the massed ranks of luvviedom") for opposing plans to scrap the HRA.
