From 1891 until the party's dissolution, Red Tories generally dominated the highest rungs of the party and its leadership.

The permanent staff would lose the prospect of promotion to the highest rungs of their career ladder.

Over the last few decades, on the higher rungs of higher education, the United States has been outpacing pretty much everybody, especially in science and technology.

But the new immigrants have yet to reach the higher rungs of the city's political ladder.

But that is not true at higher social and economic rungs, where the display of dominance is more subdued, researchers say.

Liberal arts graduates are more likely to reach high rungs of the corporate ladder working in marketing, sales and personnel than in manufacturing.

Instead Dragosani respected his boss much as a steeplejack respects the higher rungs of his ladder.

Reaching up for higher rungs so as to spread her weight, she began to climb.

He was well placed on the highest rungs of his educational career ladder, when his mother died in 1876.

Yet most of them competed energetically for higher rungs on the corporate ladder.