However, Bulgaria ranks 51st in the Ease of Doing Business rank list, higher than most other Eastern European states, and 28th in the Economic Freedom of the World index, outperforming the Netherlands and South Korea.

For example, heaven ranks higher than earth ; earth ranks higher than man etc.

There were 4 basic ranks: herdboy assistants, warriors, inDunas and higher ranked supremos for a particular mission.

Mid-level and senior military officers who are likely to be promoted to the most senior ranks are selected to study at the War College in preparation for higher staff and command positions.

However, certain higher ranks have additional powers to authorize certain aspects of police operations, such as a power to authorize a search of a suspect's house ( section 18 PACE in England and Wales ) by an officer of the rank of Inspector, or the power to authorize a suspect's detention beyond 24 hours by a Superintendent.

All career soldiers could be promoted to the higher ranks in recognition of exceptional acts of bravery or valour.

Some researchers from India, Europe and the U. S. claim that genetic similarities to Europeans were more common in members of the higher ranks.

In 1938 the Troupes Spéciales numbered around 10, 000 men and 306 officers ( of whom 88 were French, mainly in the higher ranks ).

Many of the older and more traditional schools often take longer to allow students to test for higher ranks than newer, more contemporary schools, as they may not have the required testing intervals.

It ranks among the best universities in Northern Europe in international rankings and is generally considered one of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in Europe.

Since these refused to submit voluntarily and tried to assert their traditional independence, his papacy is full of struggles against the higher ranks of the clergy.

Taxonomic units in higher ranks often have a name that is based on a generic name, such as the family name Canidae, which is based on Canis.

However, not all names in higher ranks are necessarily based on the name of a genus: for example, Carnivora is the name for the order to which the dog belongs.

The candidate preferred by each voter is taken to be the one in the pair that the voter ranks higher on their ballot paper.

The French Ministry of Defence tried in 1990 to give more easily higher ranks and driving licenses to young French soldiers with North-African ancestry.

Karting is commonly perceived as the stepping stone to the higher and more expensive ranks of motorsports.

In France, vice-amiral is the most senior of the ranks in the French Navy ; higher ranks, vice-amiral d ' escadre and amiral, are permanent functions, style and position ( in French rang et appellation ) given to a vice-amiral-ranking officer.

Second, an Athenian militiaman, apparently acting on orders from conspirators higher in the ranks of the government, assassinated Phrynichus, the leader of the extremist faction.

It has additional ( but more limited ) provisions on names in higher ranks.

The title of " grand duke " () ranks in honor below king, but higher in diplomatic precedence than a sovereign duke or sovereign prince.

* Afri-Cola, a German brand, had a higher caffeine content ( about 250 mg / L ) until the product was relaunched with a new formulation in 1999.

The first line, " Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, über alles in der Welt " ( usually translated into English as " Germany, Germany above all, above all in the world "), was an appeal to the various German monarchs to give the creation of a united Germany a higher priority than the independence of their small states.

Although it was tactically inconclusive, with significantly higher losses in the British fleet but with the German fleet fleeing the field of battle, it was effectively a strategic defeat for Germany.

Dollfuss was concerned that with German National Socialist leader Adolf Hitler becoming Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the Austrian National Socialists ( DNSAP ) could gain a significant minority in future elections ( according to fascism scholar Stanley G. Payne, should elections have been held in 1933, the DNSAP could have mustered about 25 % of the votes-contemporary TIME analysts suggests a higher support of 50 %, with a 75 % approval rate in the Tyrol region bordering Nazi Germany ).

His paternalistic programs won the support of German industry because its goals were to win the support of the working classes for the Empire and reduce the outflow of immigrants to America, where wages were higher but welfare did not exist.

Heinrich Abeken ( August 19, 1809, Osnabrück – August 8, 1872 ), German theologian and Prussian Privy Legation Councillor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, was born and raised in the city of Osnabrück as a son of a merchant, he was incited to a higher education by the example of his uncle Bernhard Rudolf Abeken.

He anticipated that German industry, now heavily involved in shipbuilding, would back a campaign to maintain a higher construction rate.

His paternalistic programs won the support of German industry because its goals were to win the support of the working classes for the Empire and reduce the outflow of emigrants to America, where wages were higher but welfare did not exist.

The temperature in the south is usually a few degrees higher than the north and temperatures in the central interior mountains are always cooler than the rest of the island. the highest temperature record was in the Town of San German with 105 ° F and the minimum registration is 39 ° F in Aibonito.

West German estimates were much higher: in 1966 the West German Ministry for Inter-German Affairs claimed that 383 people died in the uprising, including 116 " functionaries of the SED regime ", with an additional 106 executed under martial law or later condemned to death, while 1, 838 were injured and 5, 100 arrested, 1, 200 of these later being sentenced to a total of 6, 000 years in penal camps.

At the same time rising prices led to demands for higher wages in the factories, and in January and February 1916 revolutionary propaganda, aided by German funds, lead to widespread strikes.

Outside Lusatia, it has been superseded by German, following repeated " positive " discrimination, from the 13th century on, in favour of that latter tongue, being advantaged by the comparatively higher development of the German civilisation.

The United States had the experimental Continental IV-1430 inverted V12 engine under development, with a higher power-to-weight ratio than any of the initial versions of the German WW II inverted V12s, but was never developed to production status, with only 23 examples of the Continental inverted V12 ever being built.

* In German jurisdiction: The term Senat ( senate ) in higher courts of appeal refers to the " bench " in its broader metonymy meaning, describing members of the judiciary collectively ( usually five judges ), often occupied with of a particular subject-matter jurisdiction.

The Ypres front was a salient sticking into German positions, overlooked by German artillery on the higher ground.

During World War II, he gave lectures at the underground university in Warsaw, since higher education for Poles was forbidden under German occupation.

When the German autobahns built in the 1930s introduced higher design standards and speeds, road planners and road-builders in the United States started developing and building toll roads to similar high standards.

The German High Command had failed to achieve its two objectives, which were to capture the city of Verdun and to inflict a much higher casualty count on its French adversary ; in fact, the Germans suffered nearly as many deaths as the French.

Female participation was higher in the former East German states with 29. 2 % compared to 24. 8 % in the former West German states.

The German and Dutch languages, which have separate words for royal prince ( Prinz, Prins ) and for sovereign prince ( Fürst, Vorst ), mark the Grand Princes of Lithuania, Ruthenian states and other Eastern European nations as higher princes, as well as the Russian rulers and later princes of the blood, by the terms Grossfürst, Grootvorst, not Grossherzog, Groothertog.

In the East, Emperor Theodosius I likewise professed the Nicene creed ; but there were many adherents of Arianism throughout his dominions, especially among the higher clergy.

The elite's ( nobility and higher clergy ) protection of their own hunting privileges and game often protected significant woodlands.

He argued that the country could not be taxed higher ; that tax exemptions for the nobility and clergy must be reduced ; and proposed that borrowing more money would solve the country's fiscal shortages.

Otto continued to support celibacy for the higher clergy, so ecclesiastical appointments never became hereditary.

One often cited example, though perhaps not Luther's chief concern, is a condemnation of the selling of indulgences ; another prominent point within the 95 Theses is Luther's disagreement both with the way in which the higher clergy, especially the pope, used and abused power, and with the very idea of the pope.

The new measures, which were embodied in a new code called the Ecloga ( Selection ), published in 726, met with some opposition on the part of the nobles and higher clergy.

Formal higher education in the arts and sciences in Wales, from the Dark Ages to the 18th century, was the preserve of the wealthy and the clergy.

In England the anti-papal preaching of John Wyclif supported the opposition of the king and the higher clergy to Boniface IX's habit of granting English benefices as they fell vacant to favorites in the Roman Curia.

Among other things, it encouraged creating schools and holding clergy to a higher standard than the laity.

Beginning with the clergy, he sought to raise the laity also to a higher moral standard of living.

Socrates asserts that he owed the impulse to write his work to a certain Theodorus, who is alluded to in the proemium to the second book as " a holy man of God " and seems therefore to have been a monk or one of the higher clergy.

Charles was a prince of education and letters, a friend of the church, and conscious of the support he could find in the episcopate against his unruly nobles, for he chose his councillors from among the higher clergy, as in the case of Guenelon of Sens, who betrayed him, and of Hincmar of Reims.

He mentions " offering the gifts " ( a reference to the Eucharist ) as one of the functions of the higher class of clergy.

He also summoned a meeting of the higher clergy in Reims in which several important reforming decrees were passed.

They were other stelae, funerary this time, discovered on the site that have forwarded knowledge of the genealogy of the higher clergy of Memphis, a dynasty of high priests of Ptah.

The Chartists were especially harsh on the Church of England for unequal distribution of the state funds it received resulting in some bishops and higher dignitaries having grossly larger incomes than other clergy.

Philip was already at odds with the papacy, trying to tax the clergy, and had been attempting to assert his own authority as higher than that of the Pope.

* April 30: The Archbishop of Toulouse and vocal leader of the higher clergy, Loménie de Brienne is appointed chief minister of state

Greeks controlled the affairs of the Orthodox Church through the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, as the higher clergy of the Orthodox Church was mostly of Greek origin.

In any case, in both the East and the West, once a chalice has been blessed, it may only be touched by an ordained member of the higher clergy ( bishop, priest or deacon ).

The haykla contains an elevated platform or bema, which includes an altar, two lecterns for reading, and chairs for higher clergy.

Today, in Portugal and Brazil, Dom is ordinarily employed only for higher members of the clergy, and for superiors of religious orders, such as the Order of Saint Benedict, wherein it is also associated with the status of Dom Frater.

The early 19th century Restoration Movement also encompassed very different views concerning the role of clergy: the Campbell branch was strongly anti-clergy, believing there was no justification for a clergy / lay distinction, while the Stone branch had a higher view of clergy, believing that only an ordained minister could officiate at communion.