21.   Then blacks, mainly from the Carolinas, entered in force and now Colombians and Dominicans are filling the ranks.

22.   Their ranks are filled with groups that are typically sworn enemies in the Capitol.

23.   Their ranks were filled from the Commonwealth countries of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and especially Canada.

24.   These, of course, are questions that should be posed to a much larger group of males, who overwhelmingly fill the ranks of the violent.

25.   They provided the labor to build roads or pyramids or fill the ranks of armies during war.

26.   They want to fill those ranks with students returning to school for a second career, in addition to the usual high school graduates.

27.   They can look at vast stretches of the mighty Central Valley and see recent immigrants filling the ranks of the working middle class.

28.   Those, he says, were like battle plans put together by an emperor-warrior who assembles troops to fill the ranks.

29.   To fill its ranks, the Border Patrol has for the first time relied on a professionally designed, nationwide recruiting campaign.

30.   Trying hard to fill its ranks in an era of prosperity and relative peace, the U.S. Army is offering bigger enlistment bonuses and shorter hitches for some recruits.