1.   It was achieved only because the senior ranks were there and able to provide the infrastructure and necessary training.

2.   The more senior ranks, such as sergeants, warrant officers, captains and majors, were all in post.

3.   He also said senior ranks would be employed on fixed term contracts, and their pay would be performance related.

4.   As he reached senior rank, Boorda may have brooded over the realization that he never crossed the bridge.

5.   Bomber pilots dominated the senior ranks of the Air Force until Vietnam, when fighter jocks shoved them aside, seizing a stranglehold they still hold.

6.   Brown lost her job as part of a wide-ranging purge of senior executive ranks at the bank, one well-placed source said.

7.   But facing a turf battle that began to break into the open and reached the senior ranks of law enforcement, Secret Service officials backpedaled on Sunday.

8.   But my source said Lockheed has been thinning its senior ranks for years.

9.   But the scope and duration of this new war game and the senior rank of its participants was highly unusual, officials said.