More or less at the last moment, he and his men had managed to obtain strategic positions of rank and responsibility among the troops.

How do people as shallow and insensitive as this attain positions of rank?

There was a tendency to elevate him in positions of importance and rank as a consequence.

The tenderfoot cruiser commander was actually too young to carry such a position of military rank.

He was one of the few painters to hold a position of rank in the Joseon court.

And none has served in a position of lower rank than chief executive officer of an interplanetary vessel.

If the jangwon was already employed in a position of rank, he was raised 4 levels.

O'Duffy refused the offer of another position of equivalent rank in the public service.

The verb cashier is "to dismiss from a position of high rank, usually with dishonor."

He passed the literary examination in 1035, and rose to a position of rank.