The rank and file always watch to see if cadres' deeds match their words.
the strike was supported by the union rank and file; he rose from the ranks to become a colonel.
As for the rank and file of the Democratic League and the Peasants' and Workers' Democratic Party, not all nor even the majority of them are involved.
Tread carefully, though. The Ninja is a lone warrior; don't try to force him or her to work with rank and file.
Even if Mr Mugabe's senior security men wanted to launch a coup, it is uncertain that the rank and file would obey them.
He did much in the campaign to rally the party’s rank and file, so he and his supporters will expect the government to spend more on their people through social projects as a reward.
In any event, reshuffles on the Tory front-bench have left it looking a bit less libertarian than it did a couple of years ago, and the party's rank and file are as crusty as ever.
Therefore, we must once again bring home to the cadres and the rank and file the idea that because ours is a poor, big country, we must work hard with a pioneering spirit.
Also, he rebuked them over the high number of casualties, an apparent decline in fighting skills, desertions, criminal acts and a lack of unity among the rank and file.
Given a 63% vote for Mr Ouattara among the rank and file in government barracks in November's presidential election, the task may not prove as difficult as it might seem.
So unreliable was the rank and file of the famed eighteenth century Prussian army that military rules forbade camping near wooded areas: the troops would simply melt away into the trees.
