Sentence examples for ranks of them from inspiring English sources

But Carlos Melo of Insper, a university in São Paulo, says that in casting the clash in terms of "us versus them", the PT forgets that the ranks of "them" have swelled massively, thanks to healthy economic growth (until recently) and policies to reduce poverty.

From the train, on a grey day, we saw the rounded, upper slopes of the hills on either side dissolve into cloud, but near our window, just outside Bishops Lydeard, was a big cider orchard, and then a different form of land use displayed in a field full of solar panels instead of trees, ranks of them, all facing uniformly upward, waiting for the sun.

It was designed as a training aid for Chinese soldiers and state-run television has show pictures of ranks of them merrily gaming away, controlling virtual People's Liberation Army troops in various battlefield scenarios.

Killing ranks of them with a single shotgun blast feels stellar and lets mappers refill the guns of players using something other than an ammo cache, and in a more exciting way.

"In the course of thinking back over your 29 years," he says, "I called to mind many charming memories (and some distressing ones as well); and among the highest ranking of them all was when you were three, just before I went into military service.

The International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology (ICSB) maintains international rules for the naming of bacteria and taxonomic categories and for the ranking of them in the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria.

With as dominating as the Giants running game was all year, I was sure they would rank first (Denver and Carolina ranked ahead of them).

In California, the Republicans hold fourteen congressional seats, and the Sabato Crystal Ball Web site now ranks seven of them as competitive.

The military says it has about 4,000 Muslims in its ranks, most of them blacks but including Arab- and Asian-Americans as well as white converts.

Despite the cuts, more people soon joined the institute's higher ranks, many of them, claim ex-DFI staff, being Al Khatar's friends and former banking colleagues.

Marching in disciplined ranks, some of them using walkie-talkies, they were sent at timed intervals from various churches to the downtown business area.