front rank

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She had to be young so you could have lots of children, she had to be Protestant, she had to be a front-rank aristocrat, and she had to be a virgin.

From Salon • Sep. 6, 2023

So far, Boris Johnson has not visited Wakefield, and I'm told front-rank government ministers tend to pop in briefly to gladhand the Conservative candidate, knock off an endorsement video and head back to Westminster.

From BBC • Jun. 15, 2022

Had Hitler delayed by a few years, Roberts suggests, Churchill would surely have been away from front-rank politics too long to “make himself the one indispensable figure.”

From New York Times • Nov. 13, 2018

Hannan, who is 45, is by no ordinary measure a front-rank British politician.

From The Guardian • Sep. 29, 2016

We were placed in two ranks, “endways,” in such a manner that the heads of the front-rank men rested between the feet of their respective “rears.”

From The Scalp Hunters by Stewart, F.A.