Sentence examples for ranks started from inspiring English sources

The Iraqi Army was underequipped and underprepared, and its ranks started to fall apart soon after the fighting began.

"FLA, fuck right off!" "Antifa, ha ha ha!" After chanting had gone on for a while, it was the FLA whose ranks started to gradually leave the barrier first.

If ranks start to close again, there could be trouble.

Mr. Gettelfinger came up through Ford's ranks, starting with his first job at the company's Louisville truck plant.

Until now, most city principals have moved slowly through the ranks, starting as teachers and spending an average of 19 years in schools before landing the top job.

Like Aho, Weaver was not a sailor when he enrolled at Annapolis and worked his way up through the ranks, starting with the junior varsity team on J/24's.

Visger had a typical rise up the football ranks: starting at the age of 11 in Pop Warner, the youth league, defensive tackle for his Stockton high school team, a football scholarship to the University of Colorado, graduating to the 49ers.

Not to mention, they will soon be 14: the University of Maryland and yes, my Scarlet Knights of Rutgers will join their ranks starting in 2014.

A senior California Guard official, Col. Darrin Bender, blamed the improper payments on the pressure recruiters faced to fill Army ranks starting in about 2005, when the Pentagon was engaged in bitter fighting in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

As activists we had been trying to always be respectful and work up the ranks, starting with participating in project citizen advisory committees, meeting with key staff people, etc, so we were taken aback when the Mayor herself so calmly told us to sue the City.

Southwest's brand ranking started to slip.