He followed the orderly across the parade and into the colonel's head-quarters, where he found the officer of the day, the sergeant-major and all the ranking officers of the garrison.
The ranking captain then makes his choice of the colors.
If there was any difference it was that the eyes of these three dressed in the battle uniforms of high ranking Japanese air force officers showed even less expression than had Serrangi's hypnotic eyes.
The high ranking officer's eyes were slightly narrowed, and there was a glittering chill in their depths that made Dave wonder if he hadn't better just push open the Catalina's hull door and jump out to the sharks.
The Adjutant had barely ceased, when the Inspecting officer, the ranking Colonel of the Brigade, detailed specially for the duty, made his appearance.
The numerous tribes that are habitually guilty of infanticide threw every difficulty in the way; Europeans disliked the whole affair, on account of the insult offered to their dignity in ranking them along with natives.
His duties should be performed by the secretary of state, who is always the ranking member of the cabinet.
General Cooper at a desk in Richmond was the ranking officer of the Confederate Army.
Hardee, as the ranking lieutenant general in the Army of Tennessee, felt aggrieved at the promotion of Gen.
At one stage in the fight that followed the orderly sergeant was the ranking officer in the regiment.
It was realised that Monticelli had not received his proper ranking in the nineteenth-century theatre of painting; that while he owed much to Watteau, to Turner, to Rousseau, he was a master who could stand or fall on his own merits.
It was sealed off, Inspector Sawyer who is a uniformed police inspector, I think was the first ranking officer to the School Depository Building.
It was safe enough for a high-ranking labman to gripe about Security--in fact, it was more or less expected.
You're a high-ranking physicist on the Arizona Project, aren't you, Dr.
I beg your pardon, Hale, for forgetting that you are ranking officer here," Dave apologized, keeping his gaze out over the water.
Dave was ranking officer ashore, and I acted only on his orders.
In this city he encountered his formerranking officer, shorn of all his possessions, and just emerging from an insane asylum.
In the mean time, too, he had done good service, while the new captains ranking above him were untried.
He was always jealous of any superior in his own line, but, fortunately, after his first cruise, he was always the ranking officer on his ship.
He was entitled master and commander, and ranked with a major of the army: now simply termed commander, and ranking with lieutenant-colonel, but junior of that rank.
A divisional seaman of the first class, ranking with a sergeant or corporal.
The officer taking the next place to a general, ranking with vice-admiral.
In August, 1915, at the request of President Wilson, the six ranking representatives of Latin America at Washington made an unsuccessful effort to reconcile the contending factions of Mexico.
At Camp Kent he was the ranking officer and had entire charge of its affairs.
The sterility is of all degrees, and is often so slight that the two most careful experimentalists who have ever lived, have come to diametrically opposite conclusions in ranking forms by this test.
The silver and copper mines of the province are numerous, some of them ranking among the most productive known, but the majority are worked with limited capital and on a small scale.
Confound it, Comrade," he snapped, "how is the Party to maintain discipline in the country if high ranking persons such as yourself speak open subversion to strangers.
A dozen or so engineers and technicians, two or three fairly high-ranking scientists, and three or four of the local intelligentsia had formed some sort of informal club.
Colonel Alexander, the ranking officer of the advance troops was a kindly officer inclined towards establishing peace.
General Clark was not the ranking officer in the state militia in 1838, but Boggs knew, from former experiences, whom to depend upon to execute his dastardly job.
Rudger Clawson was at the same time, set apart as president of the twelve apostles, as he became the ranking apostle after the death of President Lund.
The sterility is of all degrees, and is often so slight that the most careful experimentalists have arrived at diametrically opposite conclusions in ranking forms by this test.
Practically, when a naturalist can unite by means of intermediate links any two forms, he treats the one as a variety of the other, ranking the most common, but sometimes the one first described as the species, and the other as the variety.
These customs appear to indicate his old position as one of the menials or general servants of the village ranking below the cultivators.
There are also several endogamous subcastes ranking below the clans, of whom the principal are the Singrore, Jarha, Jangra and Mahalodhi.
Position in the central Provinces In the Central Provinces they have become landholders and are addressed by the honorific title of Thakur, rankingwith the higher cultivating castes.
He was the ranking officer in the department, but was not formally assigned to the command until October.
Apes and man then together form one order, which asranking first was named by Linnæus, Primates.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ranking" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
