An Abbé was originally a low-ranking Roman Catholic priest in France.

Richard and his retainers had been travelling in disguise as low-ranking pilgrims, but he was identified either because he was wearing an expensive ring, or because of his insistence on eating roast chicken, an aristocratic delicacy.

As Aspar could not sit on the throne because of his barbaric origin, he opposed Anthemius whose prestige would have made him independent and chose a low-ranking military officer, Leo ; in the West, as his barbaric origin barred Ricimer from the throne, it was Majorian who received the purple.

Genji was the second son of a certain ancient emperor (" Emperor Kiritsubo ") and a low-ranking but beloved concubine ( known to the readers as Lady Kiritsubo ).

He was the illegitimate son of a court painter in residence at Edo Castle, and adopted as the son of Takahashi Kakuji, a low-ranking ashigaru samurai in the service of the Date daimyo of Sendai Domain.

Hiranuma was born in what is now Tsuyama city Okayama Prefecture, as the son of a low-ranking samurai from the Tsuyama Domain of Mimasaka Province.

For instance, the material on Jing Ke's attempt at assassinating the first emperor of China was allegedly an eye-witness story passed on by the great-grandfather of his father's friend, who served as a low-ranking bureaucrat at court of Qin and happened to be attending the diplomatic ceremony for Jing Ke.

Ōkubo was born in Kagoshima, Satsuma Province, ( present-day Kagoshima Prefecture ) to Ōkubo Juemon a low-ranking retainer of Satsuma daimyō Shimazu Nariakira.

In 1884, Takaki Kanehiro, a British-trained Japanese medical doctor of the Japanese Navy, observed that beriberi was endemic among low-ranking crew who often were provided nothing but rice, but not among crews of Western navies and officers who consumed a Western-style diet.

Born into a low-ranking samurai family, his father was Shiraishi Mozaemon ( Yoshifusa ), his mother was from the Yamashita clan, and he had many siblings.

Fukuzawa Yukichi was born into an impoverished low-ranking samurai family of the Okudaira Clan of Nakatsu in 1835.

Iwakura was born in Kyoto as the second son of a low-ranking courtier and nobleman.

He was appointed the low-ranking post of ambassador to Bonn.

The Anglo-French military mission sent in August, however, failed to impress Soviet officials ; it was sent by a slow ocean-going ship and consisted of low-ranking officers who gave only vague details about their militaries.

He was born to, an ashigaru of the Akashi Domain, who had bought the rank of gokenin ( a low-ranking retainer directly serving the Tokugawa shogun ).

It is generally held that he was the son of Emperor Go-Komatsu and a low-ranking court noblewoman.

Harada was born to a family of chūgen, or low-ranking quasi-samurai, who served the retainers of the Iyo-Matsuyama Domain ( now the city of Matsuyama ).

Born in Bucharest to a family of low-ranking nobility, he used his mother's maiden name, in place of his father's name, Petrescu ( his mother was originally from Bălceşti, Vâlcea County now, then Argeş County ).

During that time, Xiao He met Han Xin, who had recently joined Liu Bang's army and was serving as a low-ranking soldier, and recognized Han Xin's brilliance in military strategy.

He rejected the notion that, despite Vladimirescu's statements to the contrary, the rebellion had a peasant character, and argued instead that it was evidence of low-ranking boyars and merchants (" the embryo of a class, that was to become the bourgeoisie ") attempting to emancipate themselves from Ottoman pressures.

Because the two-level responses are stronger than in Standard American bidding, the response of 1NT to 1 or 1 opening is forcing for one round and is used ( among other things ) for weaker hands containing low-ranking suits.

If there is a trump suit in the upcoming hand, and if jokers are being used, the jokers become the best cards of the trump suit ( better than the ace ) regardless of whether high-ranking cards or low-ranking cards are the winners.

In the Halo franchise, the weak, low-ranking Grunts of the Covenant originate on a frozen exoplanet named Balaho, where methane is a primary constituent of the atmosphere, prevents the planet becoming even more frigid than it already is due to its distance from its parent star, and thus, Grunts have evolved to utilize the gas for respiration.

The story-teller is Ulysses Paxton, protagonist of the previous novel, The Master Mind of Mars, but this story is not about him ; rather, it is the tale of Tan Hadron of Hastor, a lowly, poor padwar ( a low-ranking officer ) who is in love with the beautiful, haughty Sanoma Tora, daughter of Tor Hatan, a minor but rich noble.

In his old age, Tenji had a son, Prince Ōtomo, by a low-ranking consort.

A group of Portuguese low-ranking officers organised in the Armed Forces Movement ( MFA – Movimento das Forças Armadas ), including elements who had been fighting the pro-independence guerrillas in the Portuguese empire's territories in Africa, rose to overthrow the Estado Novo regime that had ruled Portugal since the 1930s.

Especially members of the low-ranking clergy, who had severed their relations with the church, became the leaders of the opposition.

Their nickname arbitrarily presupposed their adherence to " Judaism ", even though most of Skhariya's followers had been ordinary Russians of Russian Orthodox faith and low-ranking Orthodox clergy and had never confessed Judaism.

As the border changes sparked a political crisis leading to an Iron Guard takeover — the National Legionary State — the interior wing's confusion intensified: the upper echelon faced investigation from Georgi Dimitrov ( as well as other Comintern officials ) on charges of " Trotskyism ", and, since the FRN had crumbled, several low-ranking party officials actually began collaborating with the new regime.

One of Triumph's motivations for becoming a superhero was that his father was a low-ranking henchman for supervillains, a life that worried his mother-the younger Triumph, however, misinterpreted her concern as a sign that his father was abusive, and his henchman outfit to mean that his father had been a major supervillain.

What did emerge in the course of the investigations at the time of the trial, however, was that several low-ranking British officers had sold guns to a number of Burmese politicians, including U Saw.

Often these were recruited from the normally low-ranking local tribes because of their traditional knowledge of the environment and hunting techniques.

The Gallipoli campaign gave an important boost to the career of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, a little-known, low-ranking army officer whose success at Gallipoli made him a national hero.

At the height of his career, many low-ranking commanders previously served under Wei Qing voluntarily came to Huo's service in the hope of achieving military glory with him.

Kogălniceanu noted with pride that " The entire nation has accepted this great reform, and everyone, former Princes, great boyars, low-ranking boyars, privileged strata, have received this equalitarian reform, discarding, even without special laws, all that derived from the old regime, and even all that resembled the old regime ".

After his return to Japan in 1868, Takahashi taught English conversation, and later became the first master of the Kyōritsu Gakkō high school in Tokyo, ( currently Kaisei High School ) and at the same time worked as a low-ranking governmental bureaucrat in the Ministry of Education, later the Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce.

In law, every member of a police force is a Constable whatever their actual rank, in the sense that, despite being a low-ranking or high-ranking officer, all have the same powers of arrest.

At the same time, a conflict became apparent between high-and low-ranking boyars, after the proposed constitution of Ionică Tăutu was rejected by most of the former ( a vocal minority under the leadership of Mihail Sturdza ).

This added to the antiregime resentment already felt by, among others, oil workers, low-ranking Al Thani, dissident shaykhs, and some leading individuals.

" These are most often given by a sentry to a low-ranking superior who does not rate the full " present arms " salute.

Nasser didn't believe that a low-ranking officer like himself ( a lieutenant-colonel ) would be accepted by the Egyptian people, and so selected Naguib, a general, to be his " boss " and lead the coup in name.

If a low-ranking animal tries to challenge one of the dominant dragons, the dominant animal will demonstrate its superiority by bobbing its head and inflating its beard, at which point the challenger may signal submission by waving one of its forelegs in a slow circle.

Americans delivered some low-ranking German suspects to displaced persons camps for the purpose of having them executed by the DPs, without prior trial or sentencing.

Diary of a Madman centers on the life of Poprishchin, a low-ranking civil servant and titular counsellor who yearns to be noticed by a beautiful woman, the daughter of a senior official, with whom he has fallen in love.

His true identity was not discovered by his captors, and Hanke was thus placed in a Prisoner of War ( POW ) camp alongside other low-ranking SS members.

Notable releases include: two policemen in Putamayo ; German hostage Lothar Hintze ; the January 10, 2008 release of former vice presidential candidate Clara Rojas and former congresswoman Consuelo González, which was a deal brokered by the government of Venezuela ; the January 31, 2008 release of Luis Eladio Perez Bonilla, Gloria Polanco, and Orlando Beltran Cuellar in another deal brokered by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez ; the December 21, 2008 release of Alan Jara, Sigifredo López, three low-ranking police officers and a low-ranking soldier ; the March 17, 2009 of Swedish hostage Erik Roland Larsson.