Sentence examples for lesser rank from inspiring English sources

In 1996, both officers held the lesser rank of major general, the officials said.

(Folk stories might feature an emperor or lord and a lover of lesser rank).

Pastorino da Siena produced a long series of portraits of sitters of lesser rank, cast in lead without reverse type.

One possible punishment would be to force him to retire at a lesser rank, which would deprive him of some benefits, an official said.

The sun god Shimegi and the moon god Kushuh, whose consort was Nikkal, the Ningal of the Sumerians, were of lesser rank.

And virtually every major American trading partner places a cabinet-level official in charge of trade talks -- many combine the job with foreign minister -- raising the question of whether they would negotiate with an American of lesser rank.

Bryant, naturally, assigned the Nets' backcourt a slightly lesser ranking.

Senior coppers nowadays end up with columns to augment their pensions, lesser ranks take the cash up front.

Lesser ranks can settle for the marquis, earl or viscount types for a mere $720,000 roughly 730 times as much as the average urban Chinese earns in a year.

Yet their ascent to the top echelon of college-football programs from lesser ranks — Strong had been at Louisville, Franklin at Vanderbilt — does not mean that schools have mended their ways, or that old attitudes have completely disappeared.

His changes mean the game's top-16 players are no longer guaranteed a place in the latter stages of eight different ranking tournaments and are instead forced to muddy their spats in the early rounds with over 112 lesser ranked fellow professionals.