Sentence examples similar to filled rank from inspiring English sources

The task of teaching the newly filled ranks has been complicated by what is at once a good but still handicapping reality: the city has far fewer fires, where the real seasoning of firefighters takes place.

But by now, the Ivies, too, have filled their ranks with international players.

"He fired several members of the outgoing Republican governor's administration and filled the ranks with his own people.

His tables were once full of the Hispanic immigrants who filled the ranks of the construction trade.

Women quickly filled the ranks -- before people figured out how much money there was to be made in the business.

"Handsome and intelligent young ladies" flirtatiously debated with the dashing, mustachioed men who filled the ranks of marching companies.

Since the early days of the uprising, Syrian rebel forces have filled their ranks with army defectors and civilians.

This group brings together some of the remarkable musicians who filled the ranks of big bands and small combos during the 1970's salsa explosion in New York.

After all, generations of Harvard M.B.A.'s have filled the ranks of the country's consulting firms, investment banks and corporate giants.

They filled the ranks of all-borough and all-city ensembles, took private lessons and theory classes and played chamber music on weekends.

The centrist Democrats who once filled its ranks fared very poorly in the 2010 midterm elections, while others retired or were harmed by redistricting or by primary battles.