Sentence examples for rank rising from inspiring English sources

Richard Maxwell Eaton states that this rise of the Konkanastha is a classic example of social rank rising with political fortune.

Each class year at the academies has a separate rank, rising (at USNA) from Midshipman 4th Class, or MIDN 4/C (freshmen, usually called plebes) to MIDN 1/C, seniors.

Among the mid-caps, Rank rose 17.5p to 147p after it announced it had received a tax rebate from HMRC worth a total of £154m including interest.

Rank rose 2.5p to 119.1p after the gaming and betting group announced it had received £42.5m in overpaid VAT from revenue and customs.

Among the mid-caps Rank rose 6.8p to 123.5p after it confirmed it was buying 23 UK casinos from Gala Coral for £205m in cash.

PartyGaming jumped 52.5p to 309.5p as it unveiled its long awaited merger with Austrian rival Bwin, while bingo hall and casino operator Rank rose 7.8p to 117p after reporting a rise in first half profits from £24.7m to £25.1m.

Rank rose 13p to 150p after it received the backing of the European Court of Justice in its battle with the UK tax authorities over alleged overpayment of VAT on bingo and amusement machines.

Finally Rank rose 2.8p to 151.6p after Friday's 150p a share mandatory offer from Malaysian-controlled Guoco, which took its stake to 40.8% by buying an 11.6% shareholding from Genting.

England's 13 and 14-year-olds produced their best effort in science, where England's international rank rose from ninth to eighth out of the 39 countries taking part, keeping England ahead of the US, Canada and Australia.

It worked wonders for my blog stats, and the Amazon sales rank rose from the tens of thousands to the single thousands, but it wasn't until a review was published in the mainstream press – in this paper, and the only review the book has had in the UK press so far – that the Amazon ranking broke the top 500.

China's global export rank rose from the 32nd in 1978 to the 1st in 2009, and in the same period China had been a top recipient of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the world.