lower ranks

The lower ranks also know this to be true and are adjusting their expectations accordingly.

There is less of this in the lower ranks in France than in England.

The lower ranks do have to exercise ingenuity, yes, but only along the lines they are ordered to follow.

Though they were all from the lower ranks of life, they were characterised by great varieties of gifts and dispositions.

Power had descended to the lower ranks of society, and that power was beginning to be brought into play.

The principle of selection that obtains in the lower ranks of Nature will not fail us in her higher walks.