Sentence examples for is the highest placed from inspiring English sources

Paul Pogba, who ranked at No11, is the highest placed player under 23.

Welsh composer Sir Karl Jenkins, and his The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is the highest placed work by a living composer at No 15.

Twilight star Robert Pattinson is just behind Radcliffe with £44.16m, and Keira Knightley is the highest placed woman, with £37.28m at number 4. Music figures Adele (£27.54m, number 6), Calvin Harris (£22.2m, number 8), Cheryl Cole (£15.5m, number 9) and Leona Lewis (£14.45m) fill out the rest of the top 10.

Director of television Jana Bennett - tipped for a big role in Thompson's reorganisation, which is expected this week - is the highest placed woman at number eight, followed by director of radio Jenny Abramsky at 11 and director of news Helen Boaden at number 17.

A prize is a huge help - boosting the Orange-winner Zadie Smith (28) and the Whitbread novel award winner Ali Smith (51) - but not essential if the writer has a loyal following; Ian McEwan's famously Booker-snubbed Saturday is the highest placed literary title at 21, and both Kazuo Ishiguro and Sebastian Faulks, 44 and 45 respectively, made strong showings with demanding novels.

Stephens is the highest placed teenager in the world's top 100, with a current ranking of 38. Britain's Laura Robson, 18, is ranked 53rd.

Angelina Jolie, at No 18, was the highest placed woman.

Wayne Rooney was the highest placed England international in eighth.

China, ranked 26th and up one place from a year earlier, was the highest placed of the large developing economies.

The firm was the highest placed financial services company for the third consecutive year and was the only one in its peer group to make the top 25.

Finland was the highest placed European country, with a top-five performance in science, while Ireland was sixth-equal with Taiwan in reading.