Sentence examples for improved its ranking from inspiring English sources

Greece may have improved its ranking the most, but that was from a desperately poor starting-point.

Uganda has improved its ranking in the corruption index, but remains below even Africa's pretty bleak average.Most countries flail away to little effect.

Correction: December 30, 2003, Tuesday An article on Dec. 22 about the ways Washington University in St . Louisimproved its ranking in the annual survey by U.S. News & World Report referred imprecisely to the ratio of applicants to undergraduate openings.

An article on Dec. 22 about the ways Washington University in St . Louisimproved its ranking in the annual survey by U.S. News & World Report referred imprecisely to the ratio of applicants to undergraduate openings.

Correction: December 24, 2003, Wednesday An article on Monday about the ways Washington University in St . Louisimproved its ranking in the annual survey by U.S. News & World Report missstated the name of a graduate student from South Korea who said she was attracted by the high rank of its social work school.

A few other countries, including Italy and Uganda, have made inroads on corruption but have by no means entirely destroyed the problem.Italy purged its political class in the legal investigations of the early 1990s, which dramatically improved its ranking in Transparency International's anti-corruption index.

And Germany has steadily improved its rank in Transparency's "Bribe Payers Index", moving from ninth-least corrupt in 1999 to fifth in 2008.

With the new wave of entrepreneurs, Berlin, once viewed as the poor relation to Germany's main business centers, like Frankfurt and Hamburg, is improving its ranking in the country's economic hierarchy.

Google took first, improving its ranking from 4.3 (out of a possible 5 points) to 4.6.

The USA, given an ability to emphasize the importance of responsiveness level and responsiveness inequality, and to de-emphasize the importance of health level and inequality in the distribution of health, improves its ranking from #15 to #3.

The startup has since been involved in several scandals, including being temporarily demoted in Google's search results for using link spam to improve its rank, though it got much of its SEO swag back after apologizing.