front rank

Example Sentences

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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

On Skybolt rested Britain’s hopes of remaining a front-rank nuclear power.

From The Guardian • Apr. 28, 2019

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

Some readers of these pages will no doubt find fault with me for stating it so baldly, and will maintain that no front-rank theologian or preacher would enunciate it in these terms to-day.

From The New Theology by Campbell, R. J. (Reginald John)