To be sure, there are many areas in which China does rank first in the world.
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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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.
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.
The three first rank macroeconomic variables critical to economic growth are monetary, tax, and regulatory policy.
Such plays demand actors of the first rank, and Ms. Scott has got them.
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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.
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.
Now instead of ranking first we rank 23rd, between Portugal and Israel.
There is a paradox surrounding Wales's position in the first-rank of internet movers and shakers, which he freely acknowledges.
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.
Those teams, who all play similar styles of defense, rank sixth, fifth and first in the NBA, respectively, in defensive efficiency.
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.
Wobbling precariously on my crutches after a family dinner in a local restaurant, I hailed the first cab in the rank.
The Chinese sports hero also topped all his countrymen to rank No. 1 on our first Forbes China Celebrity List, released today by Forbes China, the Chinese-language edition of Forbes magazine.
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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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.
Hong Kong didn't even rank in the top 10 in Knight Frank's first global cities survey, released in 2009.
Or at least it was last year, for the first time, after a steady rise in rank over the past few years.
Carey's election in 1991 had seemed to signal an end to that era, with the union's rank and file voting directly for its leaders for the first time.
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).
To say the first year was a struggle and tense with the rank and file is an understatement.
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.
The walkout won for the union the first 30-and-out retirement provision for rank-and-file workers, allowing full benefits after 30 years on the job no matter what the age.
It is the first and only measure that can be used to compare and rank the profitability performance of companies in multiple industries.
But we do know that the three metros rank poorly in everything except the average salary ranking, where they place first, second and third, respectively.
For the first time, she said, the United States next year will rank its own efforts at combating trafficking along with the rest of the world.
"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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