Sentence examples for in which rank from inspiring English sources

The mood is 18th-century rococo, recalling a time in which rank and class were elaborately stratified.

Literature is not like a sport, in which rank can be determined by contest, nor is it an entity that can be weighed or measured like a handsome squash or a blue-ribbon pig.

This revisionist look at the British Empire argues that it was primarily based not on a conviction of racial superiority but, rather, on a vast and complex social hierarchy, in which rank trumped color.

Two of the four unaligned delegates at this year's ALP national conference have signalled they will support Senate preselections and national conference delegates being decided through ballots in which rank-and-file members have 50% of the vote.

Mr. Silver and the Senate President, Joseph L. Bruno, a Republican from Rensselaer County, both said they were proud of the new open budget process, in which rank-and-file lawmakers helped hammer out a budget for the first time in decades.

Now there is another way in which ranked choice could be useful: Solving the Brexit mess.

While it's easy to find flaws in the subjective ways in which ranking systems measure values, the critical issue is what they do not measure.

The scene in which ranks upon ranks of enemy Uruk-hai warriors march in perfect order seems like a spine-chilling tip of the computer-graphics hat to Leni Riefenstahl's "Triumph of the Will".

There was little change in the poll after a week in which ranked teams played each other only twice and just two members of the top 25 lost to unranked opponents.

No. 8 Iowa State and No. 22 North Carolina State were the only other Top 25 teams that stayed in the same place after a week in which ranked teams faced each other 12 times.

"If it's take it or leave it, we'll leave it," said Rep. Lloyd Doggett, D-Texas, after a closed-door meeting in which rank-and-file Democrats chanted, "Just say no".