rank /ræŋk/ [countable noun] someone's position in an organization such as the army or police force 〔军队、警察等组织中的〕等级;级别;军衔 Gang members wear clothes or decorations that show the member's rank. 帮派成员穿戴显示级别的服装或饰物。rank of He joined the Los Angeles police...
If someone pays taxes to the government to fund an army for defense, and the money is used to finance a war where soldiers are instructed to attack a village and in doing so, a few soldiers torture prisoners for personal gratification, we would not normally say the moral responsibility of ...
On December 9, 1917, fifty-seven days after the Miracle of the Sun, the British Army under the command of General Sir Edmund Allenby took control of Jerusalem, seizing it from the Ottoman Turks. Thus ended 673 years of continuous Muslim control of the holy city stretching back to August 23...
The fractional order proportional-integral-derivative (FOPID) controller can improve the control performances of the conventional integer order PID controller with respect to the additional fractional differential and integral orders; however, choosing five interdependent control parameters including proportional...
Earnings growth is currently tracking an increase of 13.4% over last year’s Q1. That’s pretty good. At the end of March, Wall Street had expected growth of just 7.1%. If that number holds, and I think it will, then Q1 will be the seventh quarter in a row of positive growth and...
“We will break Transjordan, bomb Amman and destroy its army; and then Syria falls; and if Egypt will still continue to fight, we will bombard Port Said, Alexandria and Cairo,” wrote Israel’s first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion when war broke out in 1948. “This will be in ...