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Americans were therefore able to see and get used to competent African Americans performing outstandingly just a few rungs from the top of the Administration ladder.

White House congratulates Obama on victory 2008

But in this environment, you're better off using a high-yield savings account or rewards checking account for the short-term rungs of the ladder, says Ken Tumin, founder of DepositAccounts.com.

USATODAY.com News 2011

But in this environment, you're better off using a high-yield savings account or rewards checking account for the short-term rungs of the ladder, says Ken Tumin, founder of DepositAccounts.com.

USATODAY.com News 2011

I answer, "true, but for most people participating in the world of work, even in the bottom rungs, is more interesting and satisfying than the alternatives available if they do not get out of the house.")

Edmund S. Phelps - Autobiography 2007

The centre of the rungs is the pathway of his glance, and he stands on top.

The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig Various

It is they who are underwater creatures, it is they who are winged -- their physical assets redefined as rungs of evolution's ladder.

Chicago Reader 2010

It is they who are underwater creatures, it is they who are winged -- their physical assets redefined as rungs of evolution's ladder.

Chicago Reader 2010

Now on that ladder are what are called rungs, in other words the steps.

unknown title 2009

To that end, it lists what it calls the "ladder of sanctions", with six "rungs", from the mildest to the harshest:

Review calls for sweeping reforms to raise PCC's public credibility 2010

However, this law only applies along the "rungs" (vertically in the example above) of the RNA molecule.

A critique on the endosymbiotic theory for the origin of mitochondria 2007