The cases against several lower-ranking officials are continuing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Justices Reject Custody Claims] Reference

All federal judges, from the lower-ranking district courts to the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [Long Judicial Tenure, Not Life Appointments] Reference

It now appears likely a lower-ranking ISI official will visit instead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pakistani Link Boosts] Reference

He said the total bonus paid to lower-ranking workers of R131 million.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The SEC case relies on testimony from a lower-ranking former Apple lawyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Criminal Probe of Apple Options Is Ended] Reference

Sometime the following week, Avenue sold holdings of some lower-ranking bonds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bankruptcy Court Is Latest Battleground for Traders] Reference

As it happened, the decision to unload lower-ranking bonds proved not so smart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bankruptcy Court Is Latest Battleground for Traders] Reference

As for the lower-ranking bondholders who ended up in control, they, too, were hedge funds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bankruptcy Court Is Latest Battleground for Traders] Reference

Options awarded to lower-ranking employees still would be deductible, but with new limits.    From Wordnik.com.  [IRS Rejects Firms on Tax-Backdate Effort] Reference

Administrative action has been taken against one officer and several lower-ranking enlisted soldiers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 1, 2007] Reference

FRANKEN: Now he is one of the lower-ranking ones, an E-3, so it's going to be a while before he gets off.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2002] Reference

There are lower-ranking Pentagon officials who are -- who are prosecuted for leaking classified information.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2006] Reference

And lower-ranking vice presidents and associates are leaving some firms, including Bessemer Venture Partners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venture Capitalists Head for the Door] Reference

Relations with the thranx were cast by the wayside, contact delegated to lower-ranking functionaries such as Adjami.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dirge]

Its involvement in the lucrative drug trade means lower-ranking members may not care whether the group's leader is gone.    From Wordnik.com.  [FARC Leader Dies of Heart Attack] Reference

It was reviewed by lower-ranking officials, and when he returned to work, the report had been filed away, the letter said.    From Wordnik.com.  [German Regulator Warned of Hypo Bank Problems Before Bailout] Reference

"How is it that you are doing this dangerous chore yourself, Chiefess, rather than assigning lower-ranking goblins to do it?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Pet Peeve]

The talks would primarily include lower-ranking and mid-level Taliban figures, not top officials from the group's ruling body.    From Wordnik.com.  [U.S. Mulls Talks With Taliban in Bid to Quell Afghan Unrest] Reference

The pliable Earl of Huntly was there, as well as the faithful lords Livingston and Fleming, and a few other lower-ranking noblemen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

It found that 54% of senior executives who stayed had to take lower-ranking jobs at their next employer, compared with 41% who bailed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tough Choice:] Reference

Officers in other branches resented the frequent intrusions into their affairs by penny-pinching (and often lower-ranking) intendants.    From Wordnik.com.  [William B. McAllister - Fighting Reformers: The Debate over the Reorganization of The French Military Medical Service 1870-1889.] Reference

Mr. Lasry says the sales of lower-ranking bonds occurred only after any nonpublic information the Avenue group had seen was made public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bankruptcy Court Is Latest Battleground for Traders] Reference

He was a major, but it would be very difficult for a lower-ranking member or non-enlisted member of the service here to do anything like that.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Nov 7, 2009] Reference

The report also states that the consequences of their actions trickled down to lower-ranking officers, leading directly to the abuses at Abu Ghraib.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Progress Report: The Tortured Past] Reference

Some of those decisions have to do with leadership development and succession planning -- preparing lower-ranking executives to move up to top positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [How Boards Can Hold Executives Accountable] Reference

A decade ago, then-Defense Secretary Robert Rumsfeld estimated that there 17 layers of bureaucracy separating him from a lower-ranking Pentagon action officer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gates Calls for Paring of Military Bureaucracy] Reference

Kind of funny how every single Army publication talks about respect as something that should be given to lower-ranking soldiers, rather than the other way around.    From Wordnik.com.  [bluemeany Diary Entry] Reference

She stormed into the managing editor's office at the Minneapolis Star more than 30 years ago, when she discovered her paycheck was lower than lower-ranking male editors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Podesta: Farewell Deborah "Debbie" Howell] Reference

MCINTYRE: The fate of the four generals and five lower-ranking officers now rests in the hands of a four-star general who will decide what punishment, if any, is warranted.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Mar 27, 2007] Reference

If one heir or ruling noble marries another, the Sovereign decides which forfeits @'s fief (usually the lower-ranking, if they are of different levels) and who is to succeed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Concordance A Terran Empire concordance] Reference