Sentence examples for ranks not only from inspiring English sources
To some environmentalists, the opposition to wind power from within their ranks not only stifles the growth of a new source of energy but also calls into question the integrity of the environmental movement itself.
Thinning their ranks not only eliminates enemies who cause casualties on a daily basis and disrupts units on the ground but has important consequences for insurgent movements as a whole.
These highest magnates had interests in common, and they closed their ranks not only against threats from above but also against fellow nobles who had been less successful in amassing wealth, counties, and advocacies and who did not possess the superior jurisdiction of a duke, a margrave, a count palatine, or a landgrave.
"What Robin Eames and I found out in our investigations leading to the Consultative Group on the Past report was that at any given time there were at least 800 informers working within the ranks not only of the loyalist paramilitaries but also the IRA.
Ever since his legendary performance as Gloumov, in a 1988 production of Ostrovsky's "Too Clever by Half," Jennings has held regal rank not only onstage but off.
At Christie's, clients are ranked not only by the value of a collection but by the likelihood of a sale within a period of time.
Fiorello La Guardia is regularly ranked not only as the greatest mayor of New York City, but as the greatest mayor of any city in all of American history.
Even more important, however, he was an anatomist, biologist, and experimentalist of the first rank; not only did he collect biological specimens, but he also concerned himself with problems of physiology and function.
Flo's high social rank not only allowed her to appropriate enough resources to raise many offspring to adulthood, but also to found a fief, in which her daughters remained in their birthplace and inherited their mother's alpha status, rather than being forced to disperse at puberty, as female chimpanzees usually are.
Erich Kästner's Emil and the Detectives (1929) ranked not only as a work of art, presenting city boys with humour and sympathy, but as an immediate classic in an entirely new field, the juvenile detective story (Mark Twain's awkward Tom Sawyer, Detective [1896] may be ignored).
Jeal's singular achievement is to rescue Speke from his unwarranted relegation to the second rank, not only establishing his credentials as a pioneering explorer but unearthing at the same time a subtle and attractive character who was far from a prude.
