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He joined the army during the war and very quickly rose through the ranks – nothing particularly splendid - but in the process, he became very close friends with a guy who lived in Dorset
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The ranks part for the MAIN GUARD, a muscular swarthy man with a bandanna on his head, dressed in military fatigues and covered in tattoos
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Speaking amongst themselves was forbidden on a formal occasion like this for the ranks of most of the crew
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" As soon as he said that much Blaise and Carlton babbled at once on the impossibility of doing so, meaning the political impossibility within the Nationalist ranks of destroying the Lula on such a mission
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joining the ranks of advisers, consultants
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the ranks and tanks and gun carriages
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He has a special gift; he will be a fine addition to our ranks
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At this angle it would be easy to misinterpret her expression, but Ava had never been very pious to start with and had not closed ranks with the League and the Church once they were under attack
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“Fearing annihilation, the Ogatu females closed ranks and hid themselves from the laser pit and the eyes of their so-called, ‘Masters’
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The Scathers broke ranks looking about; searching for this new threat
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Rayne and Mistress Sera followed Tarak and joined the front ranks
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His picture of Bunty doesn’t tie in with the shy, isolated woman of the diaries … mind you, when Bunty was working in Italy, she moved up through the ranks and ended up in charge … that may have given her more confidence in her ability … and of course, she worked with the nuns as well
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do not necessarily need to climb up in the job ranks
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I am Alpha, First of the Red Hawks that abide in this valley; only the Teacher ranks higher
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men to assist, including many from the ranks of the dragon hunters
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new search party from the ranks of the locals
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system of ranks worked in the Guardians, but he mentally translated
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After a few minutes, the trainees were instructed to draw up in ranks,
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and easily cut a sway through their ranks with
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An outward semblance of humanity is restored and the old biddy on the till loses interest now that Billy has rejoined the ranks of the normal
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Markham rather formally congratulated the ranks for their swift and
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completed, and he was formally accepted into the ranks, promoted to
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They went on like that while he sat smiling and enjoying their very feminine company, from the ranks of whom he had been so removed of late
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ranks in the body
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our weapons and ranks in the army
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The humans sought to defend themselves as the creatures flooded their ranks, but instead of biting into the demons' flesh, their blades slashed and stabbed at emptiness, cutting harmlessly through the air
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four or five young children, who, among the middling or inferior ranks of people in Europe, would have so little chance for a second husband, is there frequently courted as a sort of fortune
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The poverty of the lower ranks of people in China far surpasses that of the most beggarly nations in Europe
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The common complaint, that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people, and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food, clothing, and lodging, which satisfied them in former times, may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only, but its real recompence, which has augmented
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out the other gifts and purposes in the body and calling the ranks
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but advance in ranks (see Proverbs 30:27), because they follow
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The Ranks of the Army
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By the rules of precedency, a captain in the navy ranks with a colonel in the army ; but
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come and bring order to the confused disjointed ranks
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sense of authority and submission to the ranks of the army
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ranks of the army and whom you stand next to
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Join the ranks of those who are hidden
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Unfortunately, his success was greater than he anticipated, and he soon found himself dangerously deep within the undead ranks
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Every crappy job went to the lowest ranks first
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Imorbis figured it wouldn’t be long before he joined the ranks of the elven wraiths
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When the real price of butcher's meat has once got to its height (which, with regard to every sort, except perhaps that of hogs flesh, it seems to have done through a great part of England more than a century ago), any rise which can afterwards happen in that of any other sort of animal food, cannot much affect the circumstances of the inferior ranks of people
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Then there was the giants, only a hundred strong, but their bodies were so massive their line was as wide as the human’s and covered their ranks in shadow
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In mercantile and manufacturing towns, where the inferior ranks of people are chiefly maintained by the employment of capital, they are in general industrious, sober, and thriving; as in many English, and in most Dutch towns
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In those towns which are principally supported by the constant or occasional residence of a court, and in which the inferior ranks of people are chiefly maintained by the spending of revenue, they are in general idle, dissolute, and poor; as at Rome, Versailles, Compeigne, and Fontainbleau
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If you except Rouen and Bourdeaux, there is little trade or industry in any of the parliament towns of France; and the inferior ranks of people, being chiefly maintained by the expense of the members of the courts of justice, and of those who come to plead before them, are in general idle and poor
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It ensures his army’s ranks are filled
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In a city where a great revenue is spent, to employ with advantage a capital for any other purpose than for supplying the consumption of that city, is probably more difficult than in one in which the inferior ranks of people have no other maintenance but what they derive from the employment of such a
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The houses, the furniture, the clothing of the rich, in a little time, become useful to the inferior and middling ranks of people
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In countries which have long been rich, you will frequently find the inferior ranks of people in possession both of houses and furniture perfectly good and entire, but of which neither the one could have been built, nor the other have been made for their use
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Brave and adept, he had lived a life almost entirely in the military and worked his way up the ranks by way of his skill and dependability – as well as his sheer likeability
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There are many who sign on to the ranks because they’re bored or think it might be ‘fun’
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Bandits could be unpredictable, and therefore far more dangerous than any structured ranks of soldiers
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“A ring of dishonesty and corruption was recently uncovered in my royal court, within the ranks of my personal advisors
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He knew it was something quite grave, something requiring a convention of both the Legion’s highest ranks in Skyrim and the Penitus Oculatus
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" He looked at Griffiths, who seemed almost reluctant to accept the horrible truth, that a snitch really had infiltrated his ranks
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Were the duties upon foreign wines, and the excises upon malt, beer, and ale, to be taken away all at once, it might, in the same manner, occasion in Great Britain a pretty general and temporary drunkenness among the middling and inferior ranks of people, which would probably be soon followed by a permanent and almost universal sobriety
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Within seconds, access holes were cut into their hulls and seven new crew mates were aded to their ranks
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By raising the price, he discourages the consumption, and puts every body more or less, but particularly the inferior ranks of people, upon thrift and good management If, by raising it too high, he discourages the consumption so much that the supply of the season is likely to go beyond the consumption of the season, and to last for some time after the next crop begins to come in, he runs the hazard, not only of losing a considerable part of his corn by natural causes, but of being obliged to sell what remains of it for much less than what he might have had for it several months before
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In years of scarcity, the inferior ranks of people impute their distress to the avarice of the corn merchant, who becomes the object of their hatred and indignation
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It was enough that his name was being whispered and written outside of Legion ranks
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‘Manes’, the ‘Ghosts’, as I suspect there are more than a few soulless mercenaries within those ranks whose first and only loyalty is to gold
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For the blares of horns sounded in front of the ranks and summoned all of the officers to their positions
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The Turks retreated before us but when we got to the top we paid for it they were waiting for us and poured fire into our ranks I can tell you my unit has lost a lot of men today they are stretched from the beach to the top of the cliff rank after rank of dead men
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The Turks were being slaughtered but still they kept coming on as they reached three hundred yards Sgt Wallace gave the order and we poured our volley fire into their ranks
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Invention is kept alive, and the mind is not suffered to fall into that drowsy stupidity, which, in a civilized society, seems to benumb the understanding of almost all the inferior ranks of people
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The same thing may be said of the gross ignorance and stupidity which, in a civilized society, seem so frequently to benumb the understandings of all the inferior ranks of people
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This elicited moans and groans from the ranks but these soon quietened down as we were told that the plans had been changed slightly and now it would be the New Zealanders who would be attacking along ‘Fir Tree Spur’ and take Krithia
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Though the state was to derive no advantage from the instruction of the inferior ranks of people, it would still deserve its attention that they should not be altogether uninstructed
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The clergy of an established and well endowed religion frequently become men of learning and elegance, who possess all the virtues of gentlemen, or which can recommend them to the esteem of gentlemen; but they are apt gradually to lose the qualities, both good and bad, which gave them authority and influence with the inferior ranks of people, and which had perhaps been the original causes of the success and establishment of their religion
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It must give them public encouragement in order to their subsistence; and it must provide against that negligence to which they will naturally be subject, either by annexing particular ho0nours to profession, by establishing a long subordination of ranks, and a strict dependence, or by some other expedient
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distinction of ranks has once been completely established, there have been always two different schemes or systems of morality current at the same time; of which the one may be called the strict or austere; the other the liberal, or, if you will, the loose system
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Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition; and where all the superior ranks of people were secured from it, the inferior ranks could not be much exposed to it
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Those virtues procured them the highest respect and veneration among all the inferior ranks of people, of whom many were constantly, and almost all occasionally, fed by them
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The ties of interest, which bound the inferior ranks of people to the clergy, were in this manner gradually broken and dissolved
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They were even broken and dissolved sooner than those which bound the same ranks of people to the great barons ; because the benefices of the church being, the greater part of them, much smaller than the estates of the great barons, the possessor of each benefice was much sooner able to spend the whole of its revenue upon his own person
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The inferior ranks of people no longer looked upon that order as they had done before; as the comforters of their distress, and the relievers of their indigence
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The success of the new doctrines was almost everywhere so great, that the princes, who at that time happened to be on bad terms with the court of Rome, were, by means of them, easily enabled, in their own dominions, to overturn the church, which having lost the respect and veneration of the inferior ranks of people, could make scarce any resistance
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After hearing this pearl of wisdom an ironic jeer went up from the ranks because this information and plan was the same bullshit that we had been fed before and look where that had got us nowhere
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Such a clergy, however, while they pay their court in this manner to the higher ranks of life, are very apt to neglect altogether the means of maintaining their influence and authority with the lower
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The population of the country would be less by the number of people which thirty millions a-year, deducting always the seed, could maintain, according to the particular mode of living, and expense which might take place in the different ranks of men, among whom the remainder was distributed
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We lined up in ranks dressing off under the watchful eyes of the Provost Corpsmen our transport had already set off making for the railway station a Rail Transport Officer rode up on his horse
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We arrived at the station and Captain Melstone went off to find a RTO we stood in our ranks with our kit piled and were given permission to stand easy and smoke if we wished
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” There was a groan from the ranks and the Captain looked round us all then said
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Instead we are here but the good news is that the Battalion is needed at the front right away and because of our experience at Gallipoli it has been deemed that we do not need the training and so we will move directly to the front”, at this news a cheer went up from the ranks which was soon quietened by the NCOs
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We formed up again in three ranks and we were soon on our way to the nights bivouac and we sang as we marched along
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The inferior ranks of people in the provinces are assessed in the second
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The inferior ranks of people must, in that country, suffer patiently the usage which their superiors think proper to give them
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The mild government of England, when it assessed the different ranks of people to the poll-tax, contented itself with what that
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Capitation taxes, so far as they are levied upon the lower ranks of people, are direct taxes upon the wages of labour, and are attended with all the inconveniencics of such taxes
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It is upon this account that, in countries where the case, comfort, and security of the inferior ranks of people are little attended to, capitation taxes are very common
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The same thing maybe said of the taxes upon tea and sugar, which, in England and Holland, have become luxuries of the lowest ranks of people; and of those upon chocolate, which, in Spain, is said to have become so
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The middling and superior ranks of people, if they understood their own interest, ought always to oppose all taxes upon the necessaries of life, as well as all taxes upon the wages of labour
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The duties upon the cheaper luxuries of home produce, destined for home consumption, fall pretty equally upon people of all ranks, in proportion to their respective expense
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The whole consumption of the inferior ranks of people, or of those below the middling rank, it must be observed, is, in every country, much greater, not only in quantity, but in value, than that of the middling, and of those above the middling rank
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The whole expense of the inferior is much greater titan that of the superior ranks
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In the first place, almost the whole capital of every country is annually distributed among the inferior ranks of people, as the wages of productive labour
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Though the expense of those inferior ranks of people, therefore, taking them individually, is very small, yet the whole mass of it, taking them collectively, amounts always to by much the largest portion of the whole expense of the society ; what remains of the annual produce of the land and labour of the country, for the consumption of the superior ranks, being always much less, not only in quantity, but in value
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The taxes upon expense, therefore, which fall chiefly upon that of the superior ranks of people, upon the smaller portion of the annual produce, are likely to be much less productive than either those which fall indifferently upon the expense of all ranks, or even those which fall chiefly upon that of the inferior ranks, than either those which fall indifferently upon the whole annual produce, or those which fall chiefly upon the larger portion of it
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He had closed ranks against her back at the house when she had gone to make the coffee
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