Dutch DJs consistently rank among the top rated DJs in the world, and have a huge following both domestically and internationally.

This ranking from the 2008 edition of U. S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges, rated Mines as the top Colorado college, with the 75th rank, compared to the University of Colorado at Boulder with the 79th rank.

In such cases, a diploma is specific in rank than a Bachelor's degree of that discipline but equivalent to general degree in that discipline e. g. Diploma in Engineering of Electronics Engineering is rated differently than Bachelor of Technology in Electronics Engineering but is equivalent to Bachelor of Science in Electronics.

For example, MySpace and TradePics have optional " rank " features for users to be rated by other users.

Buckingham does not rank in the top 400 universities globally as rated by Times Higher Education, nor does it appear in the top 700 universities ranked globally by Quacquarelli Symonds, nor does it rank in the top 500 universities rated by the Academic Ranking of World Universities.

Players are rated out of 1000 points according to their wins and losses and taking into account of their opponents rank.

In 1974, the Players Association conducted polls of players in both leagues to identify and rank the best umpires ( the New York Mets did not participate ); Harvey was named the top NL umpire, being the only official in the league rated as " excellent.

Since Brigadeführer was rated equal to a Generalmajor, and Standartenführer to an Oberst, Oberführer had no military equivalent and quickly became regarded as a senior colonel rank.

Sturmhauptführer was initially considered as more of a senior lieutenant, but after 1932 the rank was rated above that of Obersturmführer and became the equivalent of a captain.

Since 1986, Detectives have been " promoted " to the rank of Detective, not " rated " as Detectives.

The word Feldwebel is usually translated as sergeant being rated OR-6 in the NATO rank comparison scale, equivalent to the British Army Sergeant and the US Army Staff Sergeant.

In fact, the final series in 2006 and 2009 rank among the highest rated sporting events of all time in Japanese television history.

In high school, she was a cadet member of the Nevada Wing of the Civil Air Patrol and participated in AFJROTC, where she was rated cadet colonel, the highest rank a cadet could achieve.

Its rank was 7th highest in Europe as rated by UEFA as of September 2012.

It did better than the show's season average rank of 32nd, and was the highest rated program on Fox that week.

Rankings are then derived by sorting each team's ratings and assigning an ordinal rank to each team starting with the highest rated team earning the # 1 rank.

The Estonian navy also has the rank of kaptenleitnant, but this is rated higher, equivalent to commander ( OF-4 ).

By official, it means a player is being rated by playing this game style, and can have a different rank at Standard than at Fast Four Way.

In situations in which an aircraft becomes a threat while taking off – which gives very little reaction time – a decision on shooting it down may be taken by an Indian Air Force officer not below the rank of Assistant Chief of Air Staff ( Operations ).

Commodore is a military rank used in many navies that is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral.

Former Pope Gregory XII was then created titular Cardinal Bishop of Porto and Santa Ruffina by the Council, with rank immediately below the Pope ( which made him the highest-ranking person in the Church, since, due to his abdication, the See of Peter was vacant ).

Among notable recipients below flag rank are: X-1 test pilot Chuck Yeager and X-15 test pilot Robert M. White, who both received the DSM as U. S. Air Force majors ; Air Force Major Rudolf Anderson, the U-2 pilot shot down during the Cuban Missile Crisis ; director Frank Capra, decorated in 1945 as an Army colonel ; actor James Stewart, decorated in 1945 as an Army Air Forces colonel ( later Air Force Brigadier General ); Col. Wendell Fertig, who led Filipino guerrillas behind Japanese lines ; Col. ( later Major General ) John K. Singlaub, who led partisan forces in the Korean War ; and Maj. Maude C. Davison, who led the " Angels of Bataan and Corregidor " during their imprisonment by the Japanese, and Colonel William S. Taylor, Program Manager Multiple Launch Rocket System.

Despite these efforts, the rank is still below regional peers and an unfavourable investment climate persists.

Traditionally it denotes the second lowest rank within the nobility, standing above " Edler " and below " Freiherr ".

# Officer: General or flag officer below the equivalent of a U. S. military chief of staff ; colonel or equivalent rank for service in assignments equivalent to those normally held by a general or flag officer in U. S. military service ; or military attachés.

* Minister ( diplomacy ), the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador

Limbaugh was not drafted during the Vietnam War draft lottery, as his birth date's high rank ( 152 ) was well above the 125 rank below which service members were drafted.

A result of fundamental importance in linear algebra is that the column rank and the row rank are always equal ( see below for proofs ).

For example, the head of the Swiss delegation at the NNSC in Korea ( see below ) had a rank of major general.

On the Human Poverty Index the United States ranked 17th, one rank below the United Kingdom and one rank above Ireland.

* Assistant Warrant Officer, a rank in Pakistan Air Force above Senior Technician and below Warrant Officer

* Reduction by one grade, if original rank in promotion authority of imposing officer ( USA / USAF E-4 and below.

* Other German nobles below the rank of count bear the style of High Well Born ().

In zoology, the only rank below species is subspecies and the name is written simply as three parts ( a trinomen ).

In botany, there are many ranks below species and although the name itself is written in three parts, a " connecting term " ( not part of the name ) is needed to show the rank.

At Tar Valon's White Tower, Nynaeve passes the test to become Accepted, a rank in the White Tower below Aes Sedai and above a Novice.

Holders of the rank immediately below, that of ordinary marquess, received a pension, but had no territorial rule.

Bureaus and administrations rank below ministries.

Modern Western historians are clearly divided on the importance of the battle, and where it should rank in military history ; see below.

The problem with morality, according to Nietzsche, is that those who were considered “ good ” were the powerful nobles who had more education, and considered themselves better than anyone below their rank.

By this time, with influences from the Stahlhelm, the SA leadership adopted its first collar insignia and also added a new SA rank of Standartenführer (" standard leader ") in charge of regiment-sized Standarten ( incorporating the company sized Staffeln ); the SS at this time adopted the same rank as well.

In addition, for a brief period in 1929, the rank of Standartenführer was divided into two separate grades, known as Standartenführer ( I ) and Standartenführer ( II ); the insignia of one oak leaf was used for both positions.

In Eichmann in Jerusalem, however, Hannah Arendt disputes the notion that Obersturmbannführer was a rank of significance, pointing out that Eichmann spent the war " dreaming " about promotion to Standartenführer.

He held the rank of Standartenführer in the SA.

* Standartenführer " Standarte leader "-an SA and SS rank, equivalent to Colonel.

Standartenführer was a Nazi party paramilitary rank that was used in several Nazi organizations, such as the SA, SS, NSKK and the NSFK.

In 1929 the rank of Standartenführer was divided into two separate ranks known as Standartenführer ( I ) and Standartenführer ( II ).

This concept was abandoned in 1930 when both the SA and SS expanded their rank systems to allow for more officer positions and thus the need for only a single Standartenführer rank.

In 1933, when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany, the rank of Standartenführer had been established as the greatest field-officer rank, lesser than that of Oberführer of the SS and SA.

By the start of the World War II, Standartenführer was widely spread as both an SS rank and a rank of the SA.

Standartenführer was the first of the SS and SA ranks to display rank insignia on both collars, without the display of unit insignia.

* Hans Landa, aka " The Jew-Hunter " portrayed by Christoph Waltz in the film Inglourious Basterds, held the rank of Standartenführer in the SS.

; Insignia of rank of Standartenführer of the Waffen-SS:

In 1927, the officer rank of SA-Führer became known by the title of " Sturmführer " and a higher officer rank known as " Sturmbannführer " was created to be held by battalion formation commanders directly subordinate to the Standartenführer.