The man placed in the front rank or fighting line sees attack after attack beaten off.

A man whose distinctions are too numerous to be listed here and whose accomplishments place him in the very first rank of painters.

However, he accepted that his talent would never place him in the top rank of artists.

Despite initially being a very high profile candidate for leadership, his organizational efforts were disappointing, placing him in the bottom rank of remaining candidates.

He has placed himself in the top rank of young Boston painters - and it hasn't been by luck.

But scholars do not place him in the top rank of peacetime Presidents.

Tsze-kung pursued, "I venture to ask who may be placed in the next lower rank?"

This work placed him at once in the first rank of Polish writers.

The book made Strachey's name and placed him firmly in the top rank of biographers, where he remains.

Parrhasius was universally placed in the very first rank among painters.