Sentence examples for rungs from inspiring English sources

A lightweight set of nylon rungs is then clipped with a carabiner and the climber will move high enough up the rungs to place another piece.

Unstable governments, often with a legacy of conflict, continue to dominate the bottom rungs of the CPI.

Perez told the Associated Press that for too many people, "the rungs on the ladder of opportunity are feeling further and further apart".

Cue much celebration by Greek ministers: not only had they climbed a couple of rungs on the ladder of fiscal probity, they now also qualified for easier terms on their outstanding debt.

The average gap between the daughter of an educated professional father and the daughter of an unskilled man who left school at the minimum age represents about three rungs of a six-rung educational ladder.

But what happens if you have clambered up a few rungs, joined the new middle class and now face the prospect of slipping back into poverty?

If America is a ladder, the rungs have been moved further apart.Perhaps Americans think the rich deserve their success.

Opposition to immigration has classically come from the bottom rungs of American society.

Her plan will knock out a few rungs.

In a country where career-switching and later retraining are rare, missing the early rungs on the economic ladder can be life-blighting.

CHINA'S leaders see patents as rungs on the ladder to becoming an innovation powerhouse.