• Such plays demand actors of the first rank, and Ms. Scott has got them.

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  • The making of Mr Blair as a politician of the first rank was his stint as shadow home secretary after Labour had lost the 1992 election.

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  • Their niche of auditing the thousands of public companies below the first rank is lucrative and does not demand a huge international network.

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  • The markets apparently regard me as a worse credit risk than the government of the world's eighth largest economy - largely because individuals have a sorrier history in general of repaying what they owe than the public sectors of first-rank developed economies.

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  • Having risen once before to the rank of first-deputy prime minister, he was sacked in January 1996 when hostility to privatisation was at its zenith and Mr Yeltsin needed a scapegoat.

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  • There is a paradox surrounding Wales's position in the first-rank of internet movers and shakers, which he freely acknowledges.

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  • For the first time this decade, six of the eight teams poised to make the playoffs rank among baseball's top nine payrolls.

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  • "Truly the events at Newtown changed us all, " said Manchin, citing the Connecticut town where December's murders of 20 first-graders and six educators propelled gun control to the top rank of national issues.

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  • It is the first and only measure that can be used to compare and rank the profitability performance of companies in multiple industries.

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  • Keith Alexander, to the rank of General and appointment as the first commander of the U.S. Cyber Command, which by most accounts will have the mission of not only defending U.S. military networks, but also conducting offensive cyberwar operations.

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  • Those teams, who all play similar styles of defense, rank sixth, fifth and first in the NBA, respectively, in defensive efficiency.

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  • StatCounter presents its data as is, and even though other counts of world-wide Internet users generally rank China first, the company's reading suggests that China ranks 22nd in the world in Web usage.

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  • Kennedy, former U.S. Army deputy chief of staff for intelligence, is the first and only woman to have received this flag rank in the U.S. Army.

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  • Under AV, voters rank candidates: if nobody gains a majority of first preferences, the second preferences of the least popular candidates are redistributed until someone crosses the 50% line.

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  • He goes into the politics and jockeying, from Mr Aldrin's vociferous campaign to be first, to Mr Armstrong's pulling rank (as commander of the module, he was higher in the NASA hierarchy).

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  • Heart disease and trauma rank first and second as the two most expensive conditions in terms of total national health care spending while cancer remains the most expensive on a per-person cost basis.

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  • The appointment of Egemen Bagis, a sharp young English-speaker, as Turkey's first cabinet-rank EU negotiator suggests that Mr Erdogan may make a fresh effort to put the EU talks back on track.

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  • As is true for most of us who grew up in the latter half of the twentieth century, the first twenty-two years of my life seemed to revolve around an unending series of tests designed to rank me versus my peer group.

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  • He was born in Londonderry in Northern Ireland, and after gaining a double first in classics at Oxford, served in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve, reaching the rank of lieutenant.

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  • The totals were then averaged and an absolute ranking assigned. (Xtreme Labs works with eCommerce retailers but did not have to rank any of its own clients, the company says.) Among those favorability rankings, Walgreens finished first on Apple products and sixth on Android phones, while CVS placed second over iOS and was the top performer over Android devices.

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