Still life paintings, the "foot soldiers in the army of art," as they have been called for their modest ranking, found a niche as an independent form beginning in the 16th century at the same time in Italy, Spain, and northern Europe.
I agreed and complimented him on his speech in Jakarta in which he had pointed out that China's per capita GDP was modest, ranking 104th in the world.
SS-Lieutenant-Colonel Adolf Eichmann (1906-62): Led Gestapo Jewish department despite modest rank.
Because Joachim was a councillor in the Parlement of Brittany in Rennes, Descartes inherited a modest rank of nobility.
It's true that the court-approved criminalization of a practice accepted by the medical profession could create a "chilling effect," further reducing the already modest ranks of abortion doctors.
"It's very hard for them to say, 'can't do.' " Mr. Cook said it was rare for an officer of Colonel Davis's modest rank to "decide that he knows better" and to go to Congress and the news media.
Downgrading the picture from the exalted status of a Van Dyck to the more modest rank of an artist known only to a handful of art historians and specialized dealers drastically cut down its financial potential.
Perhaps more important, though, was the fact that the Naval Academy was a relatively new institution in 1861, and its few graduates therefore occupied relatively modest ranks during the war (mostly as lieutenants), while the senior officers — commanders, captains and all of the flag officers — were men who had grown up in what then called the "Old Navy".
An ingredient badly missing from the centralized systems of imperial Japan and Nazi Germany was the willingness, demonstrated again and again by top Anglo-American military and political leaders, to share power with those of more modest rank who had greater expertise in tackling a particular problem and who were closer to the action.
The Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, a membership journal for the Royal College, illustrates this with very high readership levels but more modest numbers of surgeons ranking it as important.
And South Korea remains since a number of years at the modest 43rd rank, whereas China decreased – from 75th rank in 2012 to number 100 – in spite of its continuous anti-corruption campaigns.
