rise from the ranks

He had, so to speak, risen from the ranks, and didn't want to lose the common touch.

It an interesting life, and an intelligent man can rise from the ranks to position of some authority.

Most fathers were commissioned officers, but a few rose from the ranks.

I rose from the ranks, sir, and I'm proud of it.

He rose from the ranks to become a Captain.

Cries rose from the ranks of the Federation and the drums went still.

He is not permitted to rise from the ranks.

Most notably, Carnegie believed that the future leaders of society would rise from the ranks the poor.

In the Axumite tradition, they had all risen from the ranks.

A murmur rose from the ranks of the dead men as the newcomer spoke.

I am one of the many who have risen from the ranks of the working poor through the test route.

Now a third voice rose from the ranks.

It would not, however, be at all true to say that he was not permitted to rise from the ranks.

This resulted in about 30 career-soldiers, often risen from the ranks, joining the Order every year.

He was to stay at Harvard, rising from the ranks to become a full professor of French literature in 1912.

As they mostly rose from the ranks, centurions are compared to modern captains.

It seems to me right that officers should rise from the ranks, for only such can sympathize with the private soldiers."

I have risen from the ranks of the people: my voice seta mechanically upon them.

At twenty-eight, I was still struggling to rise from the ranks of cub reporter.

In General Montero's case it enabled him to rise from the ranks.

"No rising from the ranks on merit here?"

"I don't see any point to bothering," replied the commoner who'd risen from the ranks.

There he rose from the ranks as a common soldier to the highest offices of state under Catherine the Great.

Mr. Williams served 11 years as chief of police in Newark, having risen from the ranks.

Swiftly she rose from the ranks of the Ishtaritu, for she was beautiful and skilled in service, men say.