But the chief had come up through the ranks by way of administration.

"Coming up through the ranks, you get to know all the pressure points."

It used to be that the head of the school system came up through the ranks.

Maybe if you'd come up through the ranks as a woman - even looking like that.

It wouldn't kill him to come up through the ranks again.

The company takes very few dancers who have not come up through the ranks.

"It's not really a question of coming up through the ranks anymore," she said.

When I was coming up through the ranks, you didn't have to order anybody to do their jobs, they did it without asking.

There were so many guys who came up through the ranks and into different formulas.

They served without salary and came up through the ranks of lower offices.

Meanwhile, we will work hard with the military and security officers coming up through the ranks to end human rights violations.

The remaining 25 percent of the officers were enlisted men who came up through the ranks.

Coming up through the ranks, he reached the judge advocate general's office and the rank of major.

The younger Feinstein did not come up through the ranks.

"Hopefully, I'll just be the first of many who have come up through the ranks.

"I was always the blue-collar guy coming up through the ranks.

Guy came up through the ranks of the camera department, starting out at the age of 19.

It helps that he came up through the ranks rather than coming straight from the Academy."

He had been the chief's administrative right hand, but had never come up through the ranks.

They recognize that there's a time when you take at least one hand off the wheel and let others come up through the ranks."

"All the great conductors have really done it this way; they've come up through the ranks of the opera house."

"We will have workers who have come up through the ranks as inspectors and are now part of management," he said.

The lieutenant was a competent, middle-aged fellow who'd come up through the ranks.

Most of them came up through the ranks.

I understand he came up through the ranks.