Sentence examples for ranks led from inspiring English sources

Mr. Stoltenberg, a politician whose precocious rise through the ranks led him to the highest levels of power, wasted little time joining the political fray as a young man.

The rise of the Al-Nusra front, a radical Islamist militia allied to al-Qaeda, in rebel ranks led to a marked cooling of international and regional support for the opposition in mid-2013, allowedowed the government and its Hezbollah allies to launch a counter-offensive.

The British, lined-up in formation, opened a withering fire with their muskets and artillery and decimated the Xhosan ranks, led personally by Nxele.

The combination of republican ideas and the dissemination of Positivism among the army's lower and medium officer ranks led to indiscipline among the corps and became a serious threat to the monarchy.

As to the actual battle itself, the chronicles report that the Polovtsy broke and ran without having fought and that their flight through the Russian ranks led to mass confusion and resulted in their slaughter by the Mongols.

Analysis of correlation coefficients calculated for each of the three possible pairs of ranks lead to a similar conclusion.

His ranking led to a line of frozen food bearing his name and likeness, and the Legion of Honor, awarded by President François Mitterrand.

To address the imprecise ranking led by utilizing sample means of alternative performance data in pairwise comparison, a Best Alternative Search BASS) procedure is proposed for AHP by considering bounds of confidence intervals in ranking alternatives.

This ranking led to the government's frantic effort to place the country among the first 20 economies of the world by 2020 through the development of a blueprint tagged 'Vision 20:2020' (Federal Government's postulation for industrialization).

Horses are herd animals, with a clear hierarchy of rank, led by a dominant individual, usually a mare.

In 1851, under his command, the Brazilian army prevailed against the Argentine Confederation in the Platine War; a decade later Caxias, as army marshal (the army's highest rank), led Brazilian forces to victory in the Paraguayan War.