Historian Mark Noll concludes it ranks " among the small handful of semi-sacred texts by which Americans conceive their place in the world ".

Almost at once, therefore, Phillip had to appoint overseers from among the ranks of the convicts to get the others working.

There was a great deal of freedom of interaction between the groups: for example, Sarah, the granddaughter of the Visigoth king Wittiza, married a Muslim man and bore two sons who were later counted among the ranks of the highest Arab nobility.

Cairo, like many other mega-cities, suffers from high levels of pollution and traffic, but its metro – one of only two metros on the African continent ( the other one being the Algiers Metro ) – also ranks among the fifteen busiest in the world, with over 1, 000 million annual passenger rides.

Founded in 1805 by Father Edward Fenwick, afterwards first Bishop of Cincinnati, Ohio ( 1821 – 1832 ), this province has developed slowly, but now ranks among the most flourishing and active provinces of the order.

The group ' Doctors Without Borders ' ranks the place 179th among 179 countries when it comes to freedom of expression, even lower than North Korea.

McQuaid soon rose through the ranks to become Executive Producer for the EverQuest franchise and emerged during development of EverQuest as a popular figure among the fan community through his in-game avatar, Aradune.

Reactions to the appearance of feminists among fannish ranks led indirectly to the creation of A Women's APA and WisCon.

Frankfurt Airport ranks among the world's top ten airports.

In spite of the amount spent on health care in the U. S., according to a 2008 Commonwealth Fund report, the United States ranks last in the quality of health care among developed countries.

At this point, the phalanx would put its collective weight to push back the enemy line and thus create fear and panic among its ranks.

Over time, however, Vincent and Dominican dictator Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina sought to buy adherents among the ranks.

Incorporating many houngans into the ranks of the Macoutes, his public recognition of Vodou and its practitioners and his private adherence to Vodou ritual, combined with his reputed private knowledge of magic and sorcery, enhanced his popular persona among the common people and served as a peculiar form of legitimization.

" The play was one of Shakespeare's most popular works during his lifetime and still ranks among his most-performed, topping the Royal Shakespeare Company's performance list since 1879.

Harvey Mudd today still maintains the highest rate of science and engineering Ph. D. production among all undergraduate colleges and second highest ( Caltech ranks second and MIT third ) compared to all universities and colleges, according to a 2008 report by the National Science Foundation.

The largest ethnic group among the Catholic priesthood of Britain remains Irish ( in the United States, the upper ranks of the Church's hierarchy are of predominantly Irish descent.

As of 2011 it no longer ranks in the top ten among publicly monitored IRC networks by average monthly user count.

The Ivory-billed Woodpecker ranks among the largest woodpeckers in the world and the largest in the United States.

It ranks among the top three most widely used IALs ( after Esperanto and perhaps Ido ), and is the most widely used naturalistic IAL: in other words, its vocabulary, grammar and other characteristics are largely derived from natural languages.

Subsidiary Zung Fu, which has held the Mercedes-Benz franchise in Hong Kong for over 50 years, has achieved one of the highest market penetrations in the world for the luxury brand and ranks among its top international performers.

According to Annemarie Schimmel, the tendency among Shia authors to include leading mystical poets such as Rumi and Attar among their own ranks, became stronger after the introduction of Twelver Shia as the state religion in the Safavid Empire in 1501.

It ranks among top performers in the European Union in terms of papers accepted for publication in scientific journals.

The landlocked country in south central Africa ranks among the world's least developed countries.

Mozambique is a member of the Non-Aligned Movement and ranks among the moderate members of the African Bloc in the United Nations and other international organizations.

The survivors of the leading companies closed up the gaps in their torn ranks and rushed forward.

As the French ranks wavered, the leading squadrons of Württemberg ’ s Danish horse – now unhampered by enemy fire from either village – were also sent into the attack and fell upon the exposed flank of the Franco-Swiss infantry and dragoons.

Hong Kong also ranks as an important centre of publishing and printing: numerous books are published yearly for local consumption, several leading foreign publishers have their regional offices in Hong Kong, and many international magazines are printed in the territory.

After personally leading his elite forces, whose ranks were restricted to those with Persian, Mede or Elamite ancestry, to fight the invading Scythians, he led another conquest towards Indian sub-continent.

Saudi Arabia possesses 18 % of the world's proven petroleum reserves, ranks as the largest exporter of petroleum, and plays a leading role in OPEC, although its influence has waned in recent years.

Further on, after institutionalizing Sharia law in the northern part of the country along with Hassan al-Turabi, al-Bashir issued purges and executions in the upper ranks of the army, the banning of associations, political parties, and independent newspapers and the imprisonment of leading political figures and journalists.

At this time, Saddam moved up the ranks in the new government by aiding attempts to strengthen and unify the Ba ' ath party and taking a leading role in addressing the country's major domestic problems and expanding the party's following.

Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard of February 2012 " evaluates global IT companies on their leadership in the fight to stop climate change " and ranks Fujitsu 3rd out of 21 leading manufacturers, on the strength of " well-developed case study data of its solutions with transparent methodology " and " out in the Leaderboard for scoring high in the Future Savings Goal criterion.

A number of leading science fiction and fantasy authors rose through the ranks of fandom, such as Frederik Pohl and Isaac Asimov.

The Pimple was initially defended by the 16th Bavarian Infantry Division, but the Canadian Corps ' preliminary artillery bombardment leading up to the assault on 9 April caused heavy casualties amongst its ranks.

Debrett's, the UK's leading authority on etiquette, suggest that in conversation a viscount should be referred to as Lord X rather than the Viscount X. Ecclesiastical, ambassadorial and military ranks precede a viscount's rank in correspondence.

Nathanael Greene, a resident of Coventry, rose through the ranks to become a leading general of the American army.

Harty brought with him eight of the Hallé's leading players to replenish the LSO's ranks, depleted by defections to the BBC and Beecham.

This disordered the ranks of the French regiment, which began to waiver and the last straw came when they saw Prince Hohenzollern personally leading the 500 cavalrymen from the Vincent Chevaulegers regiment against them: the 10th Light panicked and fled, taking the 57th Line with them.

The Royal College regularly ranks as one of the world's leading conservatoires.

Women were almost unheard of in the ranks of leading orchestral conductors through most of the 19th and 20th centuries – there are remarkable and sobering accounts of orchestras refusing to play for them – but today, artists like Marin Alsop and Simone Young have decisively broken the gender barrier, to the point that gender neutrality is conceivable in the field and musicians increasingly regard gender as a non-issue.

According to Annemarie Schimmel, the tendency among Shia authors to include leading mystical poets such as Rumi and Attar among their own ranks, became stronger after the introduction of Twelver Shia as the state religion in the Safavid Empire in 1501.

Michigan State ranks in the world, according to a Shanghai Jiao Tong University study, which measures scientific research leading towards a Nobel Prize.

Reporters Without Borders consistently ranks China very poorly on media freedoms in their annual releases of the Press Freedom Index, calling the Chinese government as having " the sorry distinction of leading the world in repression of the Internet ".

This season also saw the retirement of two Argo all-time greats as receiver Paul Masotti retired in May as the team's all-time leading receiver, and on September 15, Michael Clemons went straight from cleats to the coaching ranks as he retired to take over the coaching reins from a fired Huard after a 1 – 6 – 1 start.

Lawren Harris of the Group became a particularly important support: " You are one of us ," he told Carr, welcoming her into the ranks of Canada's leading modernists despite her own self-deprecating attitude.

According to an international classification, the École nationale d ' administration ranks ninth among higher education institutions in the world, with regard to the performance of their training programmes, based on the number of alumni among the Chief Executive Officers of the 500 leading worldwide companies.

A slightly modified version of the suit, adapted for combat, formed the basis for National Revolutionary Army army uniforms leading up through the Second Sino-Japanese War, although during the 1930s, as German military advice and assistance to the National Government waxed, the formal military uniform in the professional elements and ranks essentially became that of Weimar and then Nazi Germany ( including the famous helmet ).