During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.

In his dealings with offenders, however, Morgan was typically firm but just.

The young apprentice apparently did well by Mr. Brown, for in the third year of his apprenticeship Lucian was offered a full partnership in the firm ; ;

The parenchyma was slightly hyperemic in the apex of the left lung, and there were several firm, gray, fibrocalcific nodules measuring as large as 3 mm..

The firm red spleen weighed 410 gm., and its surface was mottled by discrete, small patches of white material.

The engineer had more than seven years of experience in the firm, was well trained, was considered a hard worker, was respected by his fellow engineers for his technical competence and was regarded as a `` comer ''.

King Muhammad 5, was known to be most sympathetic to the formation of local self-government and made the first firm promise of elections on May Day, 1957.

Each questionnaire was mailed with a cover letter addressed personally to the president or other executive of each firm.

In order to be able to properly relate the data for a single company each of the three cards comprising the set for each firm was identified with the appropriate serial number of the respondent.

Hanch was treasurer of the Nordyke & Marmon Company, an Indianapolis firm which had manufactured flour-milling machinery before producing the Marmon car in 1904.

It was evident that a captain should remain at his desk, directing with a firm hand and keeping a firm seat.

It was most unlikely that she would be firm.

Youngish man on the make, Madden labeled him, and was ready to guess that in a correct, not too pushing fashion, the junior partner of the firm had political ambitions ; ;

The announcement that the city would sue for recovery on the performance bond was made by City Solicitor David Berger at a press conference following a meeting in the morning with Wagner and other officials of the city and the PTC as well as representatives of an engineering firm that was pulled off the El project before its completion in 1959.

The corporation was formed by the Reynolds Metal Co. and the Samuel A. and Henry A. Berger firm, a Philadelphia builder, for work in the project.

Leavitt, as he entered the jury room, said he was prepared to answer questions about the $12,500 his liquor firm paid to Stein for `` labor consultant work '' with five unions which organized Leavitt's workers.

John had a job in a small firm where the work was dull and monotonous.

Instead of linking the nine numbers of this diagram with the traditional Nine Provinces, as was usually done, this equated the odd, Yang numbers with mountains ( firm and resistant, hence Yang ) and the even numbers with rivers ( sinuous and yielding, hence Yin ) ; ;

The departure of the Southerners gave Lincoln's party firm control of Congress, but no formula for compromise or reconciliation was found, and the war came.

The Declaration announced the states ' entry into the international system ; the model treaty was designed to establish amity and commerce with other states ; and the Articles of Confederation, which established “ a firm league ” among the thirteen free and independent states, constituted an international agreement to set up central institutions for the conduct of vital domestic and foreign affairs.

In 2010, Leipzig was ranked 68th in the world as a livable city, by consulting firm Mercer in their quality of life survey.

Also in 2010, UNB's law school was ranked 2nd nationally in elite firm hiring and 6th nationally in Supreme Court Clerkships by Maclean's.

To compute the concentration ratio, the firms are ranked in order of size “ usually measured in terms of sale ”, starting from the largest in the industry at the top and going down to the smallest firm at the bottom.

For three consecutive years ( 2009 – 2011 ), the human-resource-consulting firm Mercer ranked Vienna first in its annual " Quality of Living " survey of hundreds of cities around the world.

The firm was ranked No. 1 in BusinessWeek < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s annual list of Best Places To Launch a Career for 2008.

Skate ’ s Art Market Research ( Skate Press, Ltd .), a New York based advisory firm servicing private and institutional investors in the art market, has ranked Jasper Johns as the 30th most valuable artist.

The private research firm Morgan Quitno ranked Lake Forest as the 15th safest city and another firm later ranked Lake Forest 10th in 2007 in the United States.

In 2005, Jasper was ranked in the ten best places to live in the U. S. by Relocate America, a national realty relocation firm, which consults and helps clients find desirable places across the country to live.

According to a 2011 ranking called the PEI 300 based on capital raised over the last five years, Carlyle was ranked as the third largest private equity firm in the world, after TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Area.

Members of the royal family are routinely voted among the most respected public figures in Spain, and in 2010 as many as 75 % of Spanish citizens ranked the monarchy as " above any other public institution in the country ", according to Dr Juan Díez-Nicolás, a former president of the CIS and founder of the private consulting firm ASEP ( Análisis Sociológicos Económicos y Políticos ).

On June 16, 2003, Corporate Board Member magazine named King & Spalding Atlanta's best corporate law firm for the second consecutive year, and in 2008, ranked the company among the top 20 law firms in the United States preferred by corporate general counsel to represent their companies on national matters.

Knowlegis, a nonpartisan lobbying information firm, dropped Rogers from being ranked as the 138th most influential Representative to being 402nd in that category.

In 2010, it was rated as the world's 21st most expensive retail high street by real estate firm Cushman & Wakefield and is consistently ranked as one of the costliest high end streets.

The Albuquerque-based company remains a leading risk management and insurance firm ; in 2002, it was ranked as the most profitable of New Mexico ’ s Hispanic-owned businesses.

Carmen Group is recognized as a top 20 government relations firm ranked according to Lobbying Disclosure Act filings.

The firm has consistently been ranked among the world ’ s top design firms.

NERA has been ranked the No. 1 firm for economic consulting on the Vault. com 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009 lists of top consulting firms, ahead of competitors such as Charles River Associates, Analysis Group, Cornerstone Research, and The Brattle Group.

In the Mercer ( consulting firm ) Quality of Living Survey of 215 cities ; Pointe Noire is ranked 209 in 2009.

In 2005 the firm was ranked # 11, in 2006 # 6, in 2007 # 16, in 2008 # 20, in 2009 # 8, and in 2011 # 13.

The firm has consistently ranked at the top among law firms involved in worldwide M & A transactions.

Dutko is a Washington, DC-based government affairs firm who, according to their web site, is " consistently ranked as one of the top 10 most powerful lobbying firms in the country by FORTUNE magazine.