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After three weeks of House Republicans scrambling and cycling through potential replacements, Republicans settled on Johnson — a Southern Baptist traditional conservative who at the time was a widely unknown figure and held only a low-ranking slot in House leadership.
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Emily Brooks, The Hill, 3 Jan. 2025
But the military was pursuing so many targets that officers often lacked the time or resources for such sophisticated surveillance, particularly when tracking low-ranking militants early in the war, according to seven officials and soldiers.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
On the Cerritos, the show focuses not on the leaders of the crew, but on the low-ranking officers who are forced to do the dirty work.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 18 Dec. 2024
In The Guardian, Conor Niland bemoans the loneliness of life as a low-ranking tennis player.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2024
At the beginning of Black Doves, which premiered on Dec. 5, viewers watch as Helen's life begins to unravel when her lover — a low-ranking civil servant working in the Department of Justice named Jason Davies (Andrew Koji) — is killed.
—Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
Other low-ranking fears were blood (9.3 percent) and ghosts (10.6 percent).
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
Along the edges of the enclosure, packs of low-ranking males roamed from burrow to burrow, harassing the females.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
The show, created and executive produced by Mike McMahan, stars Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells and Eugene Cordero as four low-ranking officers on the USS Cerritos, who were all promoted in Season 4 from ensigns to lieutenant (junior grade).
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
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Emily Brooks, The Hill, 3 Jan. 2025
But the military was pursuing so many targets that officers often lacked the time or resources for such sophisticated surveillance, particularly when tracking low-ranking militants early in the war, according to seven officials and soldiers.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2024
On the Cerritos, the show focuses not on the leaders of the crew, but on the low-ranking officers who are forced to do the dirty work.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 18 Dec. 2024
In The Guardian, Conor Niland bemoans the loneliness of life as a low-ranking tennis player.
—Carolyn Wells, Longreads, 13 Dec. 2024
At the beginning of Black Doves, which premiered on Dec. 5, viewers watch as Helen's life begins to unravel when her lover — a low-ranking civil servant working in the Department of Justice named Jason Davies (Andrew Koji) — is killed.
—Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 8 Dec. 2024
Other low-ranking fears were blood (9.3 percent) and ghosts (10.6 percent).
—Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Oct. 2024
Along the edges of the enclosure, packs of low-ranking males roamed from burrow to burrow, harassing the females.
—Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 30 Sep. 2024
The show, created and executive produced by Mike McMahan, stars Tawny Newsome, Jack Quaid, Noël Wells and Eugene Cordero as four low-ranking officers on the USS Cerritos, who were all promoted in Season 4 from ensigns to lieutenant (junior grade).
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 16 Sep. 2024
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“Low-ranking.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/low-ranking. Accessed 22 Jan. 2025.
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