He was one a few local Chinese in the senior ranks of the civil service in Macau.

The report had recommended access to the higher ranks of the service by open competition and public examination.

It included reminiscences of 230 participants from all ranks of the service on both sides of the conflict.

He rose through the ranks of the foreign service to become minister of foreign economic affairs in 1987.

However, these forces use the respective military ranks of the service to which they are attached, and therefore have no chief constable.

The upper ranks of the civil service, the army, and the business world had become dominated by Europeans, who were paid more than native Egyptians.

Once this occurred he rose up the ranks of the imperial service passing the highest level at the age of 35.

Take the accounting officer: according to this proposal, the institutions have to select their accounting officers from the ranks of the civil service.

There is nothing to show that he is in the very foremost ranks of the service.

For a peaceful man, the lower and median ranks of the civil service were a good place to be.