front rank

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Mandelson had his front-rank political career resurrected three times subsequently: as an EU commissioner; as business secretary and de facto deputy prime minister to Gordon Brown in 2009, and as ambassador to Washington in 2025.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

"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

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 should be but indifferent front-rank men before the enemy: but remember the Tyrol proverb,— 'Gott hat sein plan F�r Jedenmann.'

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James