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rank and file
1. This act will probably be the most difficult; by getting the rank and file of the
2. All thru it the crew sat and watched, the men of the council all had their pistols out and kept an especially sharp eye out for whispering among the rank and file
3. Although Conservatives may be found among the ranks of both major political parties, shifting political and social alliances in recent years suggest a preference for the Republican Party; in whatever many of the rank and file have been oftentimes marginalized by Republican Party leaders
4. Many are married whilst the rank and file is not though serious relationships between members may be seen as a marriage and respected
5. Coping with the stress seemed easier to the rank and file
6. Enemy soldiers and cavalry rank and file who
7. “The rank and file caretakers of the hybrids withheld much information because they had been warned that knowing the whole truth would kill them
8. The directors of MIS, HR and Operations created the core team with rank and file members of the major functions; this core team was trained to define jobs, work groups, processes, and the business unit
9. The higher minds of the scientific world are no longer wholly materialistic in their philosophy, but the rank and file of the people still lean in that direction as a result of former teachings
10. While there is no rank and file structure that means more power for anyone, a higher vibration is the goal of many, but like a pyramid, there are greater numbers on the bottom than there are at the top because many are still on their way to an understanding
11. The Allies expected the Italians to join them in fighting their former allies, but the Italian rank and file considered themselves sold out and betrayed when told that the Royalty and government had fled post haste from Rome to seek shelter in the Allied controlled south
12. Another pertinent point is the fact that, while the main leaders of the Vietminh are indeed communists, other leaders and the majority of the Vietminh rank and file can be more correctly described as nationalists who simply want the French to leave their country
13. In our Established Church it will never do to try to man the walls with officers, and let the rank and file sit idle in their barracks
14. When the shifts change and the rank and file call their reporter friends – as we both know happens – it’ll be all over the place
15. Since their names were coupled, though, since he was her declared favourite, where was the particular necessity to proclaim it to the rank and file from the housetops, the fact, namely, that he had shared her bedroom which came out in the witnessbox on oath when a thrill went through the packed court literally electrifying everybody in the shape of witnesses swearing to having witnessed him on such and such a particular date in the act of scrambling out of an upstairs apartment with the assistance of a ladder in night apparel, having gained admittance in the same fashion, a fact the weeklies, addicted to the lubric a little, simply coined shoals of money out of
16. last to the downs: and probably saved a life or two, for they could hardly have Thus it fell to one of the rank and file to make a lucky find that brought them atspent the night in the open, either on or under the hill, without being attacked by some enemy or other
17. Then, in the third place, the Owsla had lately lost a certain amount of respect among the rank and file
18. It seemed to Bigwig that the answers he got were not particularly warm or friendly, but he did not know whether to put that down to dislike of Chervil or merely to the lack of spirit that seemed to be common to the rank and file in Efrafa
19. Nevertheless, many of the rank and file continued to look
20. He’d gone to some lengths to keep it that way, but his most senior subordinates had to know the truth, and an awareness of how ubiquitous the problem had become was seeping steadily through the rank and file of the Inquisition’s investigators
21. Leaving aside the exchange provision—which we’re all perfectly well aware he intended primarily as a political and psychological ploy—the only other thing he could have done with them was to carry out reprisals against the rank and file for what happened to General Stahntyn
22. The rank and file of stockholders will give such policies their support, either because they are individually convinced that this procedure redounds to their advantage or because they accept uncritically the authority of the managements and bankers who recommend it
23. Representations from such a source, in any matter where the interest of the officers and the owners may conceivably be opposed, should gain a more respectful hearing from the rank and file of stockholders than has hitherto been accorded them in most cases
24. Just because this situation is distinctly not true of the rank and file of the stockholders, the market discounts so cruelly the value of their cash when held by the company instead of themselves
25. But it is only the lack of alertness and intelligence among the rank and file of shareholders that permits this immunity to extend to the entire realm of market quotations, including the permanent establishment of a depreciated and unsatisfactory price level
26. But we insist that not only management but the rank and file of shareholders should be conscious that the problem exists and that it calls for the best brains and the best efforts possible to deal with it
27. Second, the rank and file of the stockholders should be open-minded enough to read the proxy material and to weigh the arguments on both sides
28. Caitlin was always curious about the rank and file
29. The rank and file shared holes only slightly bigger than this one with five other men or women
30. Every army is composed of lower grades of the service- the rank and file- of whom there are always the greatest number; of the next higher military rank- corporals and noncommissioned officers of whom there are fewer, and of still-higher officers of whom there are still fewer, and so on to the highest military command which is concentrated in one
31. A military organization may be quite correctly compared to a cone, of which the base with the largest diameter consists of the rank and file; the next higher and smaller section of the cone consists of the next higher grades of the army, and so on to the apex, the point of which will represent the commander in chief
32. "The little soldiers of the rank and file who are running down there are destined for death, like flocks of sheep, whom a butcher drives before him on the highway
33. Indeed, let us take a man of our time, whoever he be (I am not speaking of a true Christian, but of a man of the rank and file of our time), cultured or uncultured, a believer or unbeliever, rich or poor, a man of a family or a single man
34. Everywhere and at all times there have appeared advanced, highly gifted men, prophets, as they are called, who have explained to men this meaning and significance of life, and at all times the men of the rank and file, who have no strength to make this meaning clear to themselves, have followed that explanation of life which their prophets revealed to them
35. Yes, and so it has gone—in a brutal, beastly way, and you are always conscious that you belong to the rank and file; they always make you feel that
36. If we throw out a dozen women in each of our large Eastern cities who have had the advantage of birth, breeding, position and wealth, the rank and file are like the rank and file of any other nation—a little brighter, perhaps; keener, more alert, better groomed, but harder—and often less fascinating
37. Why is it that you prelates and the princes of the church are almost invariably tolerant, delightfully broad-minded and free from bias, while the rank and file are so frequently strenuous and discomposing? For instance, last summer I was thrown, through force of circumstances, with a sallow-faced, stoop-shouldered preacher, who always spoke of himself as ‘a minister of the gospel
