1.   It would affect students, civil servants, military personnel and public-sector employees, who would be allowed to resume their former jobs or military ranks.

2.   Also, the military ranks are heavily minority, and minorities voted Democratic by wide margins this year.

3.   But perhaps most troubling for Kabila are the splits emerging in the military ranks.

4.   Despite his lofty military rank and years as a high-level bureaucratic player, Powell looked to me, at that moment, like the most fragile of innocents.

5.   For years there have been revelations about suicides in the military ranks, cruel abuses of first-year conscripts and corruption in the senior officer corps.

6.   He possesses a mysterious allure made more potent because of his sure-footed ascension to the highest military rank from humble origins.

7.   He spent his life defending the dream of Israel, rising steadily through the elite military ranks to become army chief of staff.

8.   In addition to the prison sentence, the court stripped Kalugin of his military rank and honors.

9.   Money is not going to bloat our military ranks.

10.   The Kremlin recently announced that it would open proceedings to strip Korzhakov of his military rank.